• @Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    961 year ago

    Failure of larger companies to make a competitive alternative to steam is not anticompetitive behavior on the part of Valve

    • @6gybf@sh.itjust.works
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      491 year ago

      Seems like a good example of how running a company for the shareholders doesn’t produce a a better product after all.

      • @Rakonat@lemmy.world
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        171 year ago

        Precisely what the share holders don’t want people to know. They worship money and what the public to think more money = more good. If people realize these investor backed products are generally not anything better than someone can make in their garage they’ll stop buying overpriced junk. So here we are about to see how the sausage gets made.

        • DigitalDilemma
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          51 year ago

          shareholders … worship money

          Well, that literally is the only reason to become a shareholder, right?

          I mean, technically you’re participating in the management of the company and can influence decisions such as environmental benefits, but it feels like that only happens when there’s secondary benefits that also improve profit.

      • Bakkoda
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        121 year ago

        Product becomes the byproduct. Dividends and massive returns are the #1 priority.

    • Kairos
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      1 year ago

      Yeah who TF are their lawyers? Anticompetitive behavior is just that—there have o be actions taken, at least in the United States. And Steam doesn’t have exclusivity agreements so IDK what they’re gonna argue.

      • @Wilzax@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        The closest thing they can argue to any kind of “exclusivity” is that the free steam keys developers can generate for their games may not be resold for a lower amount than the game can be purchased for on steam outright. That says nothing about other means of distributing the game outside of steam, and nothing about alternative platforms the devs might want to use. It’s a tiny and far away straw to grasp at.

      • @skaffi@infosec.pub
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        21 year ago

        TF2 lawyers, it would seem.
        Their legal Offense has evidently been workgrouped by Scout, Soldier and Pyro, judging by this particular legal argument. To think the Mercenaries would turn on their creator… Well, they’re mercenaries!