I feel the need to point out, a lawsuit claim isn’t proof. I can sue you for being a goblin, for example.
They are suing, making a claim, and presenting their side of the situation as their proof. You need to keep in mind there’s a non zero chance they have omitted inconvenient facts (to an extent) and misinterpreted information to their benefit.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen many, many, many games on storefronts other than steam that have a sale price lower than steam.
Just one note - Valve don’t care whether or not Steam keys are provided - if you sell on Steam then you can’t sell anywhere else cheaper.
That’s the claim made, but Valve has stressed this isn’t the case and the policy text doesn’t support that claim either. It very explicitly mentions Steam keys.
EA often does this actually for the games they offer through the EA app. EA has their own infra so you don’t get a Steam key if you purchase it from there. As a result EA games are occasionally slightly cheaper there or go on sale a bit more often than they do on Steam, so they can lure customers to their own storefront.
Just one note - Valve don’t care whether or not Steam keys are provided - if you sell on Steam then you can’t sell anywhere else cheaper.
That’s the whole basis of the lawsuit Wolfire Games brought against them.
Valve are just saying that you can’t treat their customers as second class citizens when it comes to pricing.
I feel the need to point out, a lawsuit claim isn’t proof. I can sue you for being a goblin, for example.
They are suing, making a claim, and presenting their side of the situation as their proof. You need to keep in mind there’s a non zero chance they have omitted inconvenient facts (to an extent) and misinterpreted information to their benefit.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen many, many, many games on storefronts other than steam that have a sale price lower than steam.
That’s the claim made, but Valve has stressed this isn’t the case and the policy text doesn’t support that claim either. It very explicitly mentions Steam keys.
EA often does this actually for the games they offer through the EA app. EA has their own infra so you don’t get a Steam key if you purchase it from there. As a result EA games are occasionally slightly cheaper there or go on sale a bit more often than they do on Steam, so they can lure customers to their own storefront.