Wow, that's bonkers!

@gamingonlinux "How dare you charge us money for stuff".

These are usually a waste of time and money for everybody involved, because you can't tell a company what price they should charge for things in a free market where there's plenty of competition.

But there's always a possibility this is not thrown out of court, so somebody tries from time to time.

@gamingonlinux well that’s a surprise. I’ve never thought Steam was overpriced - quite the opposite with its constant sales!

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I find it annoying that only Steam gets called out for the 30% cut. The console makers take that cut too, and Steam offers more services to game devs than they do.

@gamingonlinux If it's true that steam "dictate[s] the lowest price games can be sold for on rival platforms" then that really shouldn't be allowed. It'd be comparable to the most-favored nation (MFN) agreements described in the suits against Amazon.

@gamingonlinux I'm really surprised to see all of this white-knight'ing for a big electronics / software corporation. Every time one of these corporations gets taken to task, it's good for consumers.

1.) Valve certainly shouldn't be able to dictate how publishers set their prices on other platforms.
2.) DLC should 100% be agnostic across platforms and there's no reason it should be difficult to implement.
3.) If Steam has a monopoly on PC game sales, then its commission is necessarily excessive

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Nor surprised cause money dear boy.