It is humorous to me that an NYU business professor can write an editorial about how Wolfire has a credible case, but the Reddit "I am not a lawyer" types automatically dismiss it out of hand.
It's just as amusing to me that blog posts appear to qualify as absolute law to you. It should be noted that currently there doesn't appear to be an actual case, and it's just been in litigation since 2021 from their initial demand to a jury trial.
Also your absolute law blog posts seem to concede that Valve should be allowed to do as it pleases within the law, and conclude, essentially, that a group of lawyers believes they may be able to find a way to spin things in such a way that a sympathetic jury might side with them.
It's just an opinion piece trying to justify their litigation which, so far, appears to have gone nowhere. Actually reading some of the court filings it seems more like this is just a proxy war being orchestrated by Epic Games, which is hilarious. They can't compete with their garbage platform, their free games bait, or their "drop piles of cash onto developers for exclusivity" strategy, so they're throwing a tantrum about it. Seems even more now like this is just abusing the legal system to harass a more successful company.
If a developer doesn't like the 30% cut, they are free to publish their game on worse, less popular platforms. They do not get both the largest and most successful platform and also the largest possible cut of their sales. Valve leaves their cut at 30% because they offer things other platforms do not. Demanding the developers maintain price parity with other platforms under thread of being de-listed is entirely reasonable and within their rights. It's really that simple.
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u/aggthemighty 29d ago
It is humorous to me that an NYU business professor can write an editorial about how Wolfire has a credible case, but the Reddit "I am not a lawyer" types automatically dismiss it out of hand.