If anticompetitive means "it's your choice to enter into an agreement in which we host your game for 30%, and distribute it on our platform, with unlimited patch updates, and unlimited user downloads, and a fuckton of features like community forums, guides, groups etc., also if your game is good we will promote it free of charge"

Then I suppose companies like Epic who choose to run at a loss, as opposed to providing a good service, have no chance, and Steam is anticompetitive.

The counter narrative exists though, Steam is just a good service, and if you want to compete with them, you need to provide a good service, like GOG.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That us all fine. David is alleging that Valve is trying to restrict other platforms wolfire can sell their cases on. Valve needs to compete, not threaten to stop distributing a game if they don't like how it is selling elsewhere.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of Valve trying to prevent a developer from distributing their game on other PC store platforms, it's quite an assertion.

[–] spark947@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how the case goes.

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