I mean, not quite the same logic. The tariffs that Nintendo paid were deemed illegal. The price consumers paid was not deemed to be illegal. At least, not yet, as the case is ongoing.
iamthetot
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Yes, although frankly it's really fucking hard to name anything that isn't these days. Like, you probably can't even go grocery shopping without some of that money finding us way to alt right politics.
Economical, environmental, ethical. How can it be used responsibly when the Earth is burning and making it required pilfering the sum total of human knowledge and creativity for private profit?
This is just so blatantly anti consumer. Like, who other than the ISPs themselves are in favour of this?
Not a single disc, but there's been many games released on multiple discs for generations. As recently as FF7 Rebirth.
It's both.
It's currently in the courts in multiple countries. The accusation is that Valve has an unwritten rule that Steam must have the best retail prices. For example, Ubisoft, who runs their own platform, could not sell Assassin's Creed on Steam for $60 and on Uplay for $50.
This would make some sense from Ubisoft's position, as they don't have to pay anyone a commission on their own store, and customers may be willing to come to them for a lower price than Steam. In this scenario, no Valve infrastructure is used for the Uplay sale.
So, again, the accusation (currently unproven, but alleged in court) is that Valve strong arms others into not being able to do this. Still it for cheaper on your own store or elsewhere that takes a smaller cut? We're gonna kick you off Steam.
This is believable, because Steam commands a dominating user share. So the threat of losing access to those users is very powerful. It's also believable because people don't become billionaires by being ethical.
However, naturally, Valve denies this unwritten policy exists. The cases are ongoing.
They also profited like crazy from under age, unregulated gambling and did nothing to very little to curb it.
Hm man I just tried "Mary ultramarine robes" in both DDG and Google and I found DDG's mildly better. One web result was shared on the first page of both, but Google's first page was half pictures, ads, and reddit links.
I don't see how it's unnecessary to get more details about why something wasn't working for them.
I also hate that everything online is considered an argument these days. No one just has conversations. Lemmy and reddit don't help in that regard with up and downvotes encouraging group think.
Anyway, this is a huge tangent and not on topic, my bad.
I mean, it's not though.
I'm not at all defending this asinine "solution" to school shootings, however eight minutes could be a significant amount of lives saved.