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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not ideal, but I'd say the reason they require equivalent pricing is, so that people don't just use Steam as a marketing platform, while diverting all sales to their personal website where they sell the game for $X cheaper.

[–] Paradoxvoid 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I do understand the reasoning and honestly can't fault them for it - they are a for-profit company after all.

Doesn't mean that it's not a good example of them throwing their weight around (which is admittedly rare).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a perfect example of them abusing their position in the market. But since you're a valve cultist, you make up a bunch of weak excuses for it. If epic or ms did the same thing you'd blow a gasket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Epic exclusives prove that developers are happy skipping Steam entirely.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plus, it only applies to base price, not sale price. If a platform states "you can have your game on sale 100% of the time", and a game undercuts Steam that way, Steam wouldn't do anything about it. Well, they wouldn't have to anyways, it's illegal to have goods on sale 100% of the time, but the point is there.