Valve are being sued in the UK

[Zepondrax]

So I only just read on the internet yesterday Valve the company behind Steam are being sued 832 Million Dollars for ripping off UK Gamers. That's gotta hurt Valve!

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Does that make the UK the bad guys? Whats the backstory to this lawsuit? And what would the UK 'winning' mean for the rest of the planet?

[Komarimaru]

Oh, ya mean the suite that won't go anywhere, that even news laughed at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

Ya, we know, and people laughed at how stupid it is. Only those ignorant on matters seem to agree with it, which is laughable.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

That's gotta hurt Valve!

You have no idea how a lawsuit works, do you? I could sue Valve for a billion dollars, doesn't mean I'm going to get it lol

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

Valve are being sued in the UK

So I only just read on the internet yesterday Valve the company behind Steam are being sued 832 Million Dollars for ripping off UK Gamers. That's gotta hurt Valve!

You're a bit late to the party...

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/4333106230733877950/

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/6725643618948286754/

[Qbert ⭐]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

So I only just read on the internet yesterday Valve the company behind Steam are being sued 832 Million Dollars for ripping off UK Gamers. That's gotta hurt Valve!

Thank you captain slow

[magicISO Sweden]

classic one look what i found yay

[Zepondrax]

Yeah 843 Million for ripping off Game's for charging more than their supposed to

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Oh, ya mean the suite that won't go anywhere, that even news laughed at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

Ya, we know, and people laughed at how stupid it is. Only those ignorant on matters seem to agree with it, which is laughable.

[Zepondrax]

i just wanted to post it as news, ok

Originally posted by Reaper:

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

That's gotta hurt Valve!

You have no idea how a lawsuit works, do you? I could sue Valve for a billion dollars, doesn't mean I'm going to get it lol

[Boblin the Goblin]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

Yeah 843 Million for ripping off Game's for charging more than their supposed to

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Oh, ya mean the suite that won't go anywhere, that even news laughed at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

Ya, we know, and people laughed at how stupid it is. Only those ignorant on matters seem to agree with it, which is laughable.

Valve doesn't set the game prices.

[magicISO Sweden]

Originally posted by SlowMango:

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

Yeah 843 Million for ripping off Game's for charging more than their supposed to

Valve doesn't set the game prices.

true its the devs

[magicISO Sweden]

https://youtu.be/GadJX4guSOk?t=261 did time stamp it GOG take 30% humble bundle take 30% MS store take 30% PS store take 30% Xbox games store take 30% nintendo eshop 30% google and apple take 30% physical stores 30% so they are gonna sue every one then ?

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

Yeah 843 Million for ripping off Game's for charging more than their supposed to

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Oh, ya mean the suite that won't go anywhere, that even news laughed at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

Ya, we know, and people laughed at how stupid it is. Only those ignorant on matters seem to agree with it, which is laughable.

Steam charges exactly what the publishers set the prices to. No more. No less.

However, I bet you're referring to the 30% commission on sales. As we've debunked in the past, there is no lower amount of commission that will magically make games less expensive. There is no correlation between the price of the game and the cost of the commission. You can thank Epic Games Store, EA, and Ubisoft for proving that. The former decided to charge much less in commission and due to their exclusivity deals proved that the cost of games didn't drop in kind. For EA and Ubisoft, they both removed games from the Steam platform entirely to sell them exclusively through their own platforms where there was ZERO commission cost, and the prices stayed exactly the same.

The only thing that lower commission prices do is funnel more money to the publishers and developers. They will still charge UK customers comparable prices because those are prices that UK customers are willing to pay.

Stop believing that a game publisher will have some altruistic revelation and lower the price of their games because a sales commission is lowered.

[Komarimaru]

Originally posted by Zepondrax:

Yeah 843 Million for ripping off Game's for charging more than their supposed to

Originally posted by Komarimaru:

Oh, ya mean the suite that won't go anywhere, that even news laughed at it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwoAmifo9r0

Ya, we know, and people laughed at how stupid it is. Only those ignorant on matters seem to agree with it, which is laughable.

Next time watch the video. Even game developers laugh at joke suites like this.

[ナルゴ]

Just ban video games in the UK already. They don't deserve Steam.

[rawWwRrr]

Originally posted by Nargo:

Just ban video games in the UK already. They don't deserve Steam.

That's a real possibility.

When Germany enacted identification requirements for adult oriented games, Valve had all those games removed from the store in Germany. Russia, Iran, N. Korea, Syria, etc. are all banned in accordance with sanctions.

The infrastructure is already embedded within Steam's servers to cause an entire country to be removed at the press of a button.