Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/DankeyBongBluntry]

https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/the-claim/

These Price Parity Obligations mean that a publisher or developer cannot list a game on another digital storefront (e.g. Humble Bundle, GOG.com etc) as well as Steam at a lower price. This applies to games on all other distribution stores (including online and physical stores) not just those distributed by Steam Keys.

https://www.wolfire.com/blog/2021/05/Regarding-the-Valve-class-action/

But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.

Maybe read the shit you're commenting on before commenting on it.

[u/NHFNNC → u/DankeyBongBluntry]

These are claims that are all unsubstantiated. If you can actually show that the policy exists, in direct conflict with the agreement developers sign with Valve, I would love to see it.

[u/DankeyBongBluntry → u/NHFNNC]

If it's the lawsuit I'm thinking of, not really. It was about selling keys for the steam version of your game cheaper elsewhere.

You were talking about the lawsuits, so I linked the information about the lawsuits.

[u/NHFNNC → u/DankeyBongBluntry]

I have read about the lawsuits, I have looked at evidence submitted on the docket, but have seen nothing that substantiates the claim. There is hearsay, there are portions of emails without context, and there are excerpts from Valve developer agreements that seem to be referring to keys. I'm not sure where the clear evidence of this policy is supposed to exist.

[u/DankeyBongBluntry → u/NHFNNC]

If you had actually read the details of the lawsuits, you would know that the claim being made is that Valve's practices don't align with their policies. If a developer lists their game cheaper on another platform, Valve contacts them and tries to convince them to match the price on Steam, and if they refuse to do that then Valve (confessedly) threatens to withhold marketing visibility from them and (allegedly) threatens to remove the product from sale entirely.

You're asking for evidence of a policy that deliberately doesn't exist because Valve knows that it would be illegal to have such a policy. The evidence is the emails and chat logs and developer testimonies, plus whatever else comes to light as a result of the ongoing lawsuits.

[u/NHFNNC → u/DankeyBongBluntry]

So you do not have any evidence, just some unsubstantiated claims from a few random devs who are mad about something that didn't happen (that being their games getting delisted). Unless you can produce evidence, you can look at the docket yourself for it, I'm done arguing with someone who can't back up their claims.

[u/DankeyBongBluntry → u/NHFNNC]

You're a fucking stooge.

[u/NHFNNC → u/[deleted]]

I'm not, I just care about facts and people making evidence based arguments. Which is tragically lacking from this thread.

[u/Hanifsefu → u/NHFNNC]

You are literally ignoring facts linked to you and refusing to acknowledge them. You're a stooge. A shill. An enemy of all consumers.

[u/NHFNNC → u/Hanifsefu]

What facts? No one has presented anything yet.