You mean the latest suspiciously-well-funded attempt to try and cry about Valve refusing to give people free shit? The ones that are so similar that even the judges are telling them to knock it off and consolidate the various lawsuits, since they’re all the same thing funded by the same people? Those lawsuits?
Surprise surprise, Valve doesn’t want to run the entire backend of people’s games and then have them run off to another publisher to sell the game cheaper while Valve carries all the backend costs. People like to pretend Valve’s cut is some kind of tax instead of a revenue split of the exact same percentage literally everyone else uses (except EGS, who is hemorrhaging money and also offers complete dogshit), and they also try to pretend that it’s a PMFN when you can still sell under different publishers at other prices, just not while using Valve’s infrastructure. Notice how none of this shit involves companies that host their own infra?
All this nonsense is going to do is force Valve to make all their backend hosting and stuff separate services you get charged for if the jury doesn’t see through this bullshit. It’s not going to actually change anything for Valve, it’s just going to make their service worse for small companies- Which is exactly why these lawsuits are being funded. EGS and the like can’t compete with Valve- or more accurately, aren’t willing to spend the money to do so- so they trying to fuck over Valve and grab marketshare that way.
All it does is fuck over gamers. Competition would be good, and a challenger to Valve would be good. But this ain’t it. This is just trying to use the legal system to force valve to enshittify so EGS and other marketplaces don’t have to get better.
You mean the latest suspiciously-well-funded attempt to try and cry about Valve refusing to give people free shit? The ones that are so similar that even the judges are telling them to knock it off and consolidate the various lawsuits, since they’re all the same thing funded by the same people? Those lawsuits?
Surprise surprise, Valve doesn’t want to run the entire backend of people’s games and then have them run off to another publisher to sell the game cheaper while Valve carries all the backend costs. People like to pretend Valve’s cut is some kind of tax instead of a revenue split of the exact same percentage literally everyone else uses (except EGS, who is hemorrhaging money and also offers complete dogshit), and they also try to pretend that it’s a PMFN when you can still sell under different publishers at other prices, just not while using Valve’s infrastructure. Notice how none of this shit involves companies that host their own infra?
All this nonsense is going to do is force Valve to make all their backend hosting and stuff separate services you get charged for if the jury doesn’t see through this bullshit. It’s not going to actually change anything for Valve, it’s just going to make their service worse for small companies- Which is exactly why these lawsuits are being funded. EGS and the like can’t compete with Valve- or more accurately, aren’t willing to spend the money to do so- so they trying to fuck over Valve and grab marketshare that way.
All it does is fuck over gamers. Competition would be good, and a challenger to Valve would be good. But this ain’t it. This is just trying to use the legal system to force valve to enshittify so EGS and other marketplaces don’t have to get better.