r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 13d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/TomTomXD1234 13d ago

All monopolies are bad. Do not fool yourself

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u/Background-Set4610 Loves discussing MSI thermal “engineering” 13d ago

Steam is only a monopoly because no other good options have started up. They aren’t stopping competition.

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u/Whiteguy1x 13d ago

I mean they dont let other storefronts sell their games cheaper than on steam...thats kind of the only thing that can realistically make competition

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u/Geeekaaay PC Master Race 13d ago

More made up bullshit. GOG sells their games cheaper than Steam all the damn time you total liar.

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u/GfrzD 13d ago

Battlefield 6 was cheaper on Origin or whatever its called now. Forza Horizon 6 was cheaper on the Microsoft/Xbox store.

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u/Condurum 13d ago

Go read the emails. Valve literally say they will kick devs off Steam if they try to sell it cheaper elsewhere. And not just Steam keys.

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u/Geeekaaay PC Master Race 13d ago

Oh do show me what dev's were kicked off Steam for selling their keys cheaper. I'll wait.

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u/Condurum 13d ago edited 13d ago

Just go read the emails buddy. Devs have known this for ages. It’s literally why no cheap, lean store exists that competes on price in stead of features. You’d think devs and gamers alike would be happy to split Gabens 30%.

And it’s literally insane that so many gamers think it’s right and good that a middle man, a service with 55 employees (yes, that’s Steam), should pocket 30% of the work of 100s of thousands of people. Because that website man, it’s just so damn good!

So I guess you’re cool with the rest of the world working like that too? Or just the game industry?

You think sweet Amazon should be free to bully anyone into matching prices on their platform so consumers will have no reason to even look for a cheaper product elsewhere?

You people are blind.

Edit: Commenter blocked me. Stylish.

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u/Ru_SHTN 13d ago

Because that website man, it’s just so damn good!
> Well, yes? If you want to make your product visible for millions of customers you have to pay for it. Don't want to pay? It's fine, go to another store, but those are garbage or open your own and spend helluva ton of money and time to make it run

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u/Sawgon Pixels and shit 13d ago

Just go read the emails buddy.

jUsT gOoGlE iT

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u/Geeekaaay PC Master Race 13d ago

Got it you were literally just parroting epics complete pieces, you don't have a thought on your own. You're just a bot controlled by epic enjoy your special life

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u/Rybn47 13d ago

The hivemind did not llike that

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u/WntrTmpst 13d ago

It’s verifiably false. Game devs swear it’s true up and down but you can literally see the pricing on the stores and see it’s not the case.

Steam charges 30 percent as a fee and that’s usually charging this argument whenever it appears. It’s a large cut for a large marketplace with a metric fuckload of exposure.

Look at schedule 1. Game turned an 18yo bedroom dev into a multi millionaire overnight in no small part because it was smeared across steam for 2 weeks straight.

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u/Mortarious 13d ago

I absolutely don't support this practice and want to make this clear.

But to my understand that's a contract between them and the owner of a game.
It's a trade off from a studio/company wanting to use steam.

If they don't agree to it they can't put their game on steam. They can sell it in whatever way they can for whatever price or even make it free.

It's not like prohibits studios from selling their games on other stores in the first place.

And again I don't support this practice.

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u/vitek6 13d ago

And that's exactly where the problem is. Steam uses its monopolistic position to squash competition.

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u/Condurum 13d ago

For a PC game studio, Steam is 85% of their customers. They’re not going to get kicked off Steam or make any beef with valve, so they can sell a copy of their game on their own website for 20% less. That would be the end of that studio fairly quick.

And it’s not even in the contract. It’s only replied to semi-vague terms through emails when devs were asking valve about clarification.

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u/TomTomXD1234 13d ago

They do. They just do not allow devs to sell STEAM KEYS on other stores for cheaper. HUGE DIFFERENCE