I understand that you refuse to read sources, but the comments you are responding to? That’s a new low.
Why would Steam put your game on their site for free, giving it exposure to potential buyers, just for the buyers to turn around and buy it cheaper somewhere else?
Because it’s not their fucking product.
If I go to, say, Amazon, because I want to buy a Samsung TV, and then I go to the Samsung website and find that the same TV at MSRP is cheaper, should Amazon be allowed to force Samsung to raise their prices so they cannot compete?
The answer is no. It’s called abuse of market dominance and is codified in the Sherman Antitrust Act.
“But hurr durr Steam is better I love GabeN”
Who. The. Fuck. Cares. Being better doesn’t mean that you get to bully your suppliers and customers. That’s just insane and such a childish argument.
And Steam is not their fucking platform .
If Amazon where to set such a policy, well then just fucking stop selling there. It would come crumbling down on itself. You people don’t seem to realize the responsibility of the sellers in keeping companies like Valve at the position their in. You can’t have the cookie and eat it, which is exactly what they are pushing for with these lawsuits.
But yeah, let’s kill Steam and watch EA put commercial breaks in their games, MTX just to progress in the story, subscription to even continue to have access to your games, always-online for the most basic single player games just so they can keep track of you.
From my previous response: https://archive.ph/YvHxF
I understand that you refuse to read sources, but the comments you are responding to? That’s a new low.
Because it’s not their fucking product.
If I go to, say, Amazon, because I want to buy a Samsung TV, and then I go to the Samsung website and find that the same TV at MSRP is cheaper, should Amazon be allowed to force Samsung to raise their prices so they cannot compete?
The answer is no. It’s called abuse of market dominance and is codified in the Sherman Antitrust Act.
“But hurr durr Steam is better I love GabeN”
Who. The. Fuck. Cares. Being better doesn’t mean that you get to bully your suppliers and customers. That’s just insane and such a childish argument.
And Steam is not their fucking platform . If Amazon where to set such a policy, well then just fucking stop selling there. It would come crumbling down on itself. You people don’t seem to realize the responsibility of the sellers in keeping companies like Valve at the position their in. You can’t have the cookie and eat it, which is exactly what they are pushing for with these lawsuits.
But yeah, let’s kill Steam and watch EA put commercial breaks in their games, MTX just to progress in the story, subscription to even continue to have access to your games, always-online for the most basic single player games just so they can keep track of you.