@Krissam@PirateSoftware Is steam officially classed as a storefront or a gaming platform does anyone know? Yes I'm being lazy and not looking myself, trying to squeeze these in between stuff irl lol
This UK Lawsuit against Steam is absurd.
Steam does not impose price restrictions outside of Steam Keys sold on other platforms. If you want to sell your game for less elsewhere you are allowed to. You just can't sell the key for less elsewhere because then Steam would be on the hook for downloads on a 0% income from the sale.
Steam does not control pricing or release timing for DLC. Tons of games have cross-platform or account-bound DLC and you can buy it outside of Steam and still have it when playing on the Steam version of the game. Looking at you Warframe.
In-game purchases being tied to steam also isn't true. These can be tied to your game account based on developer infrastructure. At no time is this forced to be tied to your Steam account and only your Steam account.
Steam doesn't charge a high commission to developers. It charges 30% for a massive amount of features. Steam Play Together, Seasonal events, Workshop, Forums, Trading Cards, Visibility Rounds, and a ton of other features. At the same time they take 0% when you sell a Steam Key and you can make an unlimited amount of them which is wild as hell.
You can read all about Steams Features here:
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/k…
You can read about this lawsuit here:
steamyouoweus.co.uk/faqs/
@daegon616@alex_robot_guy@PirateSoftware So buying a dlc in a second store doesn't work (generally) as it doesn't know where to install the files or even if you own the game.
Of course DRM free games shouldn't have this problem generally 2/2