Lemmy.one
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Sunshine@piefed.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago

Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

www.pcgamer.com

external-link
message-square
200
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • pcmasterrace@lemmit.online
  • technology@lemmit.online
324
external-link

Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games

www.pcgamer.com

Sunshine@piefed.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 day ago
message-square
200
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • pcmasterrace@lemmit.online
  • technology@lemmit.online
Newell also said in 2023 testimony that Steam's 'unwritten rule' against charging lower prices on other storefronts does not exist.
  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    19 hours ago

    Despite there being very different costs related.

    How different?

    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      18 hours ago

      How likely is it that it just so happens to exactly match brick and mortar stores?

      • null@piefed.nullspace.lol
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        17 hours ago

        So you don’t know?

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          17 hours ago

          We all know it’s less. You can stop being smarmy about that.

          That’s how online stores are destroying retail, despite charging equivalent prices. But I do not have access to a specific private corporation’s operating costs, any more than you do.

          • null@piefed.nullspace.lol
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            17 hours ago

            How much less?

            • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              12 hours ago

              the giant company won’t tell us how much they’re ripping us off, so that must mean they’re not

              Is quite possibly the stupidest argument you can be making here.

              • null@piefed.nullspace.lol
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                8 hours ago

                Nobody made that argument. All that’s happened so far is that someone made a strong claim with literally nothing at all to back it up.

PC Gaming@lemmy.ca

pcgaming@lemmy.ca

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !pcgaming@lemmy.ca

For PC gaming news and discussion. PCGamingWiki

Rules:

  1. Be Respectful.
  2. No Spam or Porn.
  3. No Advertising.
  4. No Memes.
  5. No Tech Support.
  6. No questions about buying/building computers.
  7. No game suggestions, friend requests, surveys, or begging.
  8. No Let’s Plays, streams, highlight reels/montages, random videos or shorts.
  9. No off-topic posts/comments, within reason.
  10. Use the original source, no clickbait titles, no duplicates. (Submissions should be from the original source if possible, unless from paywalled or non-english sources. If the title is clickbait or lacks context you may lightly edit the title.)
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 654 users / day
  • 1.46K users / week
  • 3.71K users / month
  • 10.7K users / 6 months
  • 143 local subscribers
  • 14.8K subscribers
  • 7.79K Posts
  • 67.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • EXiLE@lemmy.ca
  • Uncle@lemmy.ca
  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org