Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy… and then it’s only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can’t it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It’s so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic… which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

  • indog@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’ve also gotten steam keys through Itch.io.

    Cool, but myself and I bet most others don’t bother making accounts on other sites for the same price as Steam.

    So you can sell your games at steam sale prices 100% of the time and have a higher price on steam. So you’re literally just wrong.

    Source or example of someone doing this (regular price on reseller is lower than regular price on Steam)? The legal documents contain plenty of examples of Valve even complaining when there’s a sale on another platform but no comparably priced sale on Steam recently. I can’t imagine they’d tolerate basically a permanent sale.

    • Jyek@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 month ago

      https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

      It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.

      What about that is unreasonable considering you’re using their platform to deliver your software and their multiplayer framework. Steam makes no money on the sale of your keys.

      Also, if your issue is that steam is a monopoly, then go make accounts in other places and stop supporting that monopoly you’re mad about…