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$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)
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[โ€“] stardust@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Seems like that'd be hard to track with so many stores selling steam keys just looking at isthereanydeals.

Weird thing is it is the publishers themselves that are able to set the price so they are choosing not to put the game on sale same as it is elsewhere. Probably to not devalue the price of their game like the Nintendo strategy when it comes to certain storefronts.

[โ€“] furikuri@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

Probably operates closer to corporate software licensing deals, i.e. "we might not catch you but if we do it's over"