That's part of the suit. David Rosen explains in the original blog post that the reason for the suit is that valve is also stifling competition by disallowing lower prices on other stores.
But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM. This would make it impossible for me, or any game developer, to determine whether or not Steam is earning their commission. I believe that other developers who charged lower prices on other stores have been contacted by Valve, telling them that their games will be removed from Steam if they did not raise their prices on competing stores.
You can sue for anything, it only means something if they win
Yeah, you can sue for anything but for it to become class action it has to go through extra scrutiny.
So when is the class action being started against Apple and Google for their 30% cuts for purchasing in their platforms. Or is Valve special because they aren't publicly traded, and suing them won't piss off the normies.
Maybe Steam should just let them sell for lower on other platforms, and then just disable all the Steam features that they don't want to pay for on their game.
I think Valve are greedy pieces of shit like everyone else, but that doesn't mean they should just give their platform and services to anyone that wants to use it for free. They still have costs to pay for.
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u/Aiyon 3d ago
This is about the commission, not about price matching.
You can sue for anything, it only means something if they win