deliriousdreams

Where did you get this information?

I have never seen and nobody has ever provided that Steam requires price parity for electronic game keys or physical copies that are not steam keys.

As far as I understand it, Steam only requires that you sell your game for the same price on other marketplaces if you’re selling Steam keys. If you’re selling a non-Steam license then you don’t have to match prices at all and can sell for cheaper on Epic, Itch, GoG, etc.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3

I also want to point out that I believe if you sell steam keys anywhere else except the steam platform you get to keep 100% of those sales. Steam only takes a 30% cut from steam key sales sold on their own store front.

First filed back in 2024 by Vicki Shotbolt, the lawsuit claims that Valve charges “excessive commission charges” that lead to “an unfair price which is then passed on to consumers”.

These fees are 30% cut of profits per game key sold, not and extra fee on top of that. So selling the steam key costs the same amount and nets about the same profit as selling a PlayStation or Nintendo key.

Literally every other online store (Epic, GOG, Xbox, PlayStation, …) does the exact same thing when it comes to both game keys and DLCs. Seems frivolous on that point at least.

This has been alleged before. And it was a nothing burger then. There’s a whole pictograph floating around comparing the cut that other game sale platforms take and I think only like 2 of them take a smaller than 30% cut.

This compares physical games to electronic keys, and that’s also a nothing burger. The cost will be higher with those on the manufacturing side because of the cost of materials to make the physical copies, the logistics of delivery to retailers, and the cost of manufacturing them.

Steam isn’t a monopoly. You keep using that word but it has a very finite legal definition. That definition provides that through practices of the company that are anti-consumer or anti-competitve, or both, the company retains a significant majority of the market share.

So again I’m not even suggesting that these devs leave steam. But the crux of the matter is that they want to use steam keys on other store fronts etc and don’t want to pay steam 30% for the use of those steam keys. They can use a different store front with a different store front’s game keys and still provide steam keys through steam. They are not required to use steam keys on their own website or other digital store fronts.

You also aren’t required to launch games from or use steam for anything except downloading the game. You can launch them, update them, modify them, etc without even having steam running.

As I said before, DLC being tied to the store front that supplied the key makes sense and is a normal standard business practice.

If what you allege is true then literally no exclusive games on the Epic store could every be made available on steam (after the exclusivity contracted time ends), because I think what you’re trying to suggest is that Steam (through confidential agreement) is forcing these devs to only provide steam keys. Which is a pretty bogus claim.

If you don’t let it update (by removing its access to the open internet), then after February you should still be able to do this. You’ll lose the ability to control it from outside the home via the internet/mobile, but it won’t be e-waste.

So sell epic keys or some other store fronts keys and move on with your life? There are other digital store keys they could sell at literally any price they want. And that’s why this is bogus.

They don’t have to sell their game digitally with steam keys. They can create keys on other platforms to sell their game.

I don’t think that word means what you think it means. Market share has nothing to do with this.

This BS again. "In exchange for selling Steam Keys of your game on the internet (using steam as the vendor for your game), you, the developer agree to sell those steam keys at the cheapest price you offer. Steam doesn’t set the price, takes the same cut from each key sold as every other platform including Nintendo, Epic, PS, Xbox, and GOG.

So I am struggling to understand what is anti-competitve about this.

For anyone still wanting to use them you can restrict their access to the internet and use them on your local network still. I have one dehumidifier hooked up to a wemo outlet in my bathroom and it still works.

You fail to understand that this wasn’t an attack on you, but commentary about the state of things and how they look from the inside rather than the outside.

And as someone who did enlist, I’m gonna just point out something. Your country should never have allowed allyship with the USA to divest you of a fighting force worthy of protecting your own assets, borders, or sovereignty.

I absolutely don’t agree that the US should be fucking about in any other country. But the entire world never even batted an eye when we were setting up puppet regimes and destabilizing whole countries where brown people live. So you’ll figure me if our problematic behavior has finally landed on your doorstep. I don’t agree with the shit we’ve done in South America, The Middle East, or half a dozen African countries.

But I also grew up in poverty and found my way out of that through enlistment, so I was part of the problem whether I wanted to be or not.

I am trying to have empathy for you and people like you while pointing out that our government is literally kidnapping people off the street and essentially using FLOK cameras as legal wiretaps. The people who are doing something need help to boost the signal and people are ignoring them.

I have tried to explain to Americans here and on reddit and other places too that the political landscape in Russia is very different and that what we think is possible is all passed through the lens of our own government and country. But people are gonna people.

For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with those people whole sale either. I recognize that what they’re asking the Russian populace to do is tantamount to a death or slavery sentence.

It’s very real. This is history repeating itself for the umpteenth time. You aren’t the first, nor will you be the last one to scream into the void about people who have been deliberately disenfranchised by their government with the direct intent of making them toothless against what is essentially a fascist regime.

The problem is that you’re screaming a lot but not offering actual solutions except a general idea of “Fight!”. That’s not helpful, and it sounds a lot like condescension.

I understand that you’re expressing frustration and disbelief and anger. But people here are angry too and they are fighting where they can. But as this and other news is very demonstrative of, the system is rigged against them and things get worse in that regard every day.

App stores removing apps that track ICE. People who share their outrage but not solutions/who don’t boost actual efforts to fight.

News article that focus solely on the bad part and offer no solutions. The fact that you don’t come across many posts with actual solutions isn’t a it’s intentional. People ignore things that help so they can remain outraged, supercilious, and smug.

All the games getting cancelled and staff still have to return to office, huh? Sounds like Ubi needs to shed some fucking office space and put out some decent products.

Thanks for the heads-up. Didn’t know this existed.

Actually, what I would prefer is something closer to what Google Play Music was.

I don’t want to just stream music. I want to buy music and have it available to stream. YouTube music doesn’t do this. The closest I can maybe find is Bandcamp. But I’d really like to be able to pay an artist for an album and then give them a few cents to stream their songs.

Polyphia. Mostly their stuff that doesn’t have lyrics.

I had always heard that the East Asian populations tended to have very dry ear wax. I guess it never occurred to me it was possible to just not have any.

… The ear wax thing is wild. Is this a known phenomenon? Does your PCM know you don’t have ear wax? Did they tell you that during an exam? How did you find out?

“Let’s speed run it.” “Say Less!”

Mostly because the type of people who ask questions like this are the “I did my own research type”. To be cited as a source doesn’t necessarily mean the paper cited or source cited is to do specifically with the purpose of the study, but that some aspect of the study relied on data from said source. They asked a question they could have googled. I admit my answer was lazy, but my laziness matched the effort of the question.

I also admit that I thought I linked the paper but did not. Thats on me. A sanity check was warranted.

This list is a source list from one of the articles I looked up. I have never used an LLM for literally anything in my life.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34105801/

    Hinchliffe SA, Sargent PH, Howard CV, Chan YF, van Velzen D. Human intrauterine renal growth expressed in absolute number of glomeruli assessed by the disector method and Cavalieri principle. Lab Invest. 1991;64:777-784.
    Hartman HA, Lai HL, Patterson LT. Cessation of renal morphogenesis in mice. Dev Biol. 2007;310:379-387.
    Brenner BM, Chertow GM. Congenital oligonephropathy and the etiology of adult hypertension and progressive renal injury. Am J Kidney Dis. 1994;23:171-175.
    Brenner BM, Garcia DL, Anderson S. Glomeruli and blood pressure. Less of one, more the other? Am J Hypertens. 1988;1:335-347.
    Guignard JP. Nephron deficit: causes and late consequences. Arch Pediatr. 2005;12:726-727.

Edit: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34105801/

Sounds like you should just set up your own instance and IP block as you see fit.