▲ 349 ▼ Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere (www.eurogamer.net) submitted 4 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 465 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago (2 children) no, obviously i'm not saying that. i'm saying that by having content in the game that costs different amounts for different players playing together on the same platform (pc), ubisoft aren't following the terms they agreed to for selling on steam. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago i was reading through the court documents earlier (i linked them in a comment) and while i don't doubt that bloomberg knows better than me, that wasn't the feel i got from the emails. it started with valve employees asking internally if it was a tos violation, then reaching out to ubisoft, then the demand to change the price on steam to match. the docs are heavily redacted so some details escaped me but... idk. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago (2 children) no, obviously i'm not saying that. i'm saying that by having content in the game that costs different amounts for different players playing together on the same platform (pc), ubisoft aren't following the terms they agreed to for selling on steam. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago i was reading through the court documents earlier (i linked them in a comment) and while i don't doubt that bloomberg knows better than me, that wasn't the feel i got from the emails. it started with valve employees asking internally if it was a tos violation, then reaching out to ubisoft, then the demand to change the price on steam to match. the docs are heavily redacted so some details escaped me but... idk. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] mabeledo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago i was reading through the court documents earlier (i linked them in a comment) and while i don't doubt that bloomberg knows better than me, that wasn't the feel i got from the emails. it started with valve employees asking internally if it was a tos violation, then reaching out to ubisoft, then the demand to change the price on steam to match. the docs are heavily redacted so some details escaped me but... idk. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 point 4 months ago i was reading through the court documents earlier (i linked them in a comment) and while i don't doubt that bloomberg knows better than me, that wasn't the feel i got from the emails. it started with valve employees asking internally if it was a tos violation, then reaching out to ubisoft, then the demand to change the price on steam to match. the docs are heavily redacted so some details escaped me but... idk. permalink fedilink source parent