• AcornTickler@sh.itjust.works
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    19 days ago

    This happened after Valve discovered that Ubisoft was marketing a cheaper $15 “starter pack” exclusively through its own Uplay store.

    Seems fair to me, assuming that starter pack is a server-side component usable with a copy of the game from Steam.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 days ago

      I dunno.

      Let’s say you’re a shipping company, and you charge a fee based on how much I sell a product for. I say “can you ship this giant box for me, it’s real heavy but I’m not charging for it”. So you cover the costs to deliver that package, and I pay nothing because it was free.

      You then find out that while yes, I give that type of thing away for free constantly, the majority of users will call me after the fact to pay me $100 to activate special features.

      Would you take issue with the fact that you’ve paid for the shipping, and I’ve skirted around paying you?