Valve Being Sued Over Monopoly Accusations - Wildfire
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The gaming industry is in TURMOIL with all the lawsuits going around. We’ve got the Epic Games vs. Apple anti trust violation lawsuit. This morning we heard that Sony is being sued over playstation store exclusivity and now we’ve got a new one with VALVE being sued for the same regarding Steam. The gaming world has gotten litigious.
Re: the lawsuit against Valve - apparently Indie Developer and Humble Bundle originator - Wolfire games - has filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Steam Creator Valve.
The gist of the lawsuit is that Valve, via what they perceive to be Valve’s extraordinary monopoly power, are getting an abnormally high cut from nearly every sale. How much of a cut, you ask? They get 30%.
They claim that Steam ties it’s gaming platform - which provides game library management, social networking, achievement tracking, chat and friend functions, etc. To its game STORE. Essentially Steam is “essentially” controlling the entire PC market with the storefront and are dictating terms to the entire PC market.
They are basically a grilled cheese sandwich that you can’t really tear apart without making a mess of things.
The lawsuit also considers that other big companies, like EA, Microsoft, Amazon, Epic, etc have tried to make similar platforms to compete and they pretty much can’t make a dent into the juggernaut that is Steam.
Not a lawyer, and you probably aren’t either - but do you think Steam should be hit with antitrust and broken apart? Do they
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