Valve hit with £656 million lawsuit for "overcharging 14 million UK PC Gamers"

[WYP]

Valve hit with £656 million lawsuit for "overcharging 14 million UK PC Gamers"

Steam Owner Valve accused of "rigging the market" to take advantage of the UK's PC gamers.



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[NeverBackDown]

I'm not so sure about this one. Valve wouldn't be doing this and allowing Devs to change their pricing per region (which they can do). All one would need to do is put a sale on the game in whatever region and match that price on any other store front. But really it's up to devs to decide how much to charge ...

 

[SpriggsyUK]

it's really a dumb lawsuit. The "price parity" they mention isn't for all platforms, it's for selling steam keys on third party sites. It's super easy to see that this is a straight lie or misunderstanding because right now GOG has a sale on. Oblivion is selling for £4 if it was true it'd be £4 on steam too, but it's £13. Takes 30 seconds to show a central argument is false.

 

[Greenback]

As far as I remember they have it that a game can't be £30 on steam and say £20 on epic as a release price but that doesn't cut out sales on different platforms, so the lawsuit is correct but that just makes good business sense, and also works in the users favour by making devs not double the price on steam for people who only get games on steam