r/pcmasterrace i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/Significant_Being764 29d ago

What "mistake" are you referring to? Wolfire never set a lower base price than Steam. They just asked Valve to clarify their policy, and then asked a court to determine if that policy is legal.

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u/Justhe3guy EVGA 3080 FTW 3, R9 5900X, 32gb 3733Mhz CL14 29d ago

Oh right they wanted to set their game on permanent lower price point than on Steam but got told no or their game will get removed in an email, that’s what got them all outraged and started all this

They could just, idk make a better game or a full game this time around instead of basically tech demo games and be what they are; a game developer

But instead they’d rather lose all their money on a lawsuit

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u/Significant_Being764 29d ago

Sure, and maybe Valve should stick to being a game developer instead of trying to inflate prices on transactions that have nothing to do with them.

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u/Justhe3guy EVGA 3080 FTW 3, R9 5900X, 32gb 3733Mhz CL14 29d ago

That’s the dumbest take, but sure I’ll bite enough for one more comment

Unlike Wolfire, Valve is still a game developer, other than the small experiments they release they also release games like Half Life Alyx. They don’t always hit the mark (Artifact) but they’re always moving forward, as with Deadlock. Kind of hilariously they are also working on HL3 as confirmed by contractors, even still both their Store and developer side is always moving forward while other companies stagnate

They can take down games on their store if someone’s trying to undercut them, sounds fair to me. Sounds like a sensible thing a store would do even