The lawsuit was brought against Valve, which owns Steam, by one video game publisher in San Francisco, Wolfire Games and on behalf of two PC Gamers, Florida Man William Herbert and New Yorker Daniel Escobar (no relation to the Drug Lord... probably).
According to the claim, 75% of PC game sales are made through Steam and nets Valve $6 billion dollars in sales annually off of their 30% commission. The lawsuit also alledges, in spite of alternative online game distributors such as Epic Games, Microsoft, Uplay, Amazon, Gog.com, Humble Bundle, etc etc etc etc etc, Valve's abuse of market power has caused its potential rivals to fail... or something.
Top Class Lawsuits said:Wolfire Games, a video game publisher in San Francisco, entered into Steam Distribution Agreements with Valve so that its games could be compatible with the popular Steam Gaming Platform, the claim states. In order to have a game on the Steam platform, publishers must agree to sell games through the Steam Store.
“As a result of Defendant’s anticompetitive practices, Wolfire Games has paid supracompetitive commissions to Valve.”
Florida resident William Herbert and New York local Daniel Escobar are both PC gamers who have bought games through the Steam Store, and say in the class action lawsuit that they have also paid “supracompetitive prices for PC Desktop Games.”
According to the claim, 75% of PC game sales are made through Steam and nets Valve $6 billion dollars in sales annually off of their 30% commission. The lawsuit also alledges, in spite of alternative online game distributors such as Epic Games, Microsoft, Uplay, Amazon, Gog.com, Humble Bundle, etc etc etc etc etc, Valve's abuse of market power has caused its potential rivals to fail... or something.
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Valve Games suppresses innovation in the gaming market and is harming both gamers and game developers with its anticompetitive practices, a new class action lawsuit claims.
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