Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere - and even the major publishers aren't safe
www.eurogamer.net
Newly uncovered evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit has claimed Valve works aggressively behind the scenes to maintain its position.
  • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    45·
    4 months ago

    You are conflating very different things here, I’m afraid.

    I’m really not. You want a neutral marketplace that just provides a service without a profit motive. That’s what it comes down to. Because any service that requires a profit will naturally protect that profit, and that includes excluding suppliers that are actively sabotaging it.

      • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        41·
        4 months ago

        Materially & historically speaking it absolutely is too much to ask, sooner or later someone inevitably gains enough wealth to rig the game, the only way anyone in history has ever managed to get anything resembling good faith out of “marketplaces” has been at gunpoint

      • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        35·
        4 months ago

        There is nothing illegal being done by steam kiddo. And ‘good faith’ is defending themselves against sabotage, which is what ubisoft is suing for the ability to do here.

          • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            25·
            4 months ago

            That’s for the courts to decide, “kiddo”.

            They did in the 1980s with walmart, kiddo.

            Nice exercise of brand loyalty, but irrelevant in this scenario.

            Incorrect, this is an ‘exercise’ of explaining a very basic fact of capitalism that has been happening longer than the word ‘capitalism’ has existed. This policy is the default for all stores on Earth.