Yeah I hope Valve loses this in favor of developers and consumers. If another platform asks for a smaller share devs should be allowed to set a lower price.
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Let's go on a hypothetical trip. Say valve loses this, and as a result they stop providing free steam keys to publishers, so that you can now only buy on steam. Obviously this is the absolute worst thing they could do.
Everyone loses, every key shop is dead. Say goodbye to humble, greenmangaming, fanatical and so on.
If you had actually read the article, instead of stepping in to blindly defend the corporation that is actively causing you to pay more money for games, you'd know this was not about steam key seller sites.
Uplay featured a $15 USD Rainbow Six Siege Starter Pack, but this version was not available on Steam, making the cheapest option on Valve's platform much more expensive. It's claimed Valve insisted Ubisoft swiftly remedy the discrepancy, giving the publisher "until the end of day tomorrow" to change that.
Lowering the price on steam would have been a remedy and would have benefitted players, just like all of the sales on steam that it actively promotes where the publisher drops the price.
This is about Ubi trying to be anticompetitive in pricing on their store and steam choosing to not go along with it. Steam consistently lowers the prices of games overall and always has.
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What? I made a purchase from Epic instead of Steam since they didn't make the MENA currency change and as a result many older games are significantly cheaper on Epic in my country.
For example Celeste's base price on Epic is 66 cents in my country with no discount (currently on %75 discount) versus 10 USD with no sale and 2.5 USD currently on Steam.
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