in civilised countries children can’t commit crimes. anything and everything they do is automatically legal.

oh i’d rather it not be minors. children have no sense of quality.

commit crimes?

the starter pack was not available on steam. that means it’s a collection of dlc. the online nature of the game means that dlc is also available on steam, it’s just the package deal that isn’t. that’s textbook the thing they outline in their policy.

gog is running mostly on rep, to be fair. don’t know about many other stores that don’t just sell steam keys.

yeah i backed down from that in my other reply.

but valve created steam, which the publishers willingly signed up for even though both ubisoft and wb games have been on pc for longer than valve has.

i think that graph also needs mobile to get the full picture, but i’ll concede that i based my statement on old numbers. the market share seems to be holding steady. still, 40% seems about right.

by the way, i’m using “niche” to mean “smaller part of”, maybe that’s not the correct usage. blame esl.

we’re talking gaming, of which pc is a niche. a shrinking one at that. nobody is claiming sony has a monopoly on the ps5, ubisoft and wb are seemingry happy to pay them.

of the pc market, yes. that’s like calling tesla a monopoly when they sold 75% of electric cars.

yeah, the bigger DEs use more X11 features that they now have to build themselves.

amazon’s case is different. if you’re selling the steam version of your game it needs to match the price on steam. if you have a separate non-steam version you can charge whatever you want.

the reason places like gog follow steam pricing is, why wouldn’t they? makes them more money.

the deal the publishers make with valve is that steam versions of games need to be priced the same everywhere. if they’re not offering steam keys they’re free to set any price.

also, if a publisher “wanted” to sell it for a lower price all they needed to do was lower the price everywhere. that’s not what’s happening.

40% of the market is not a monopoly.

if prices are the same, then the publisher is the one paying the premium.

if this is you, you’re probably me

they’re saying that publishers can’t take a higher price on steam than on other platforms. basically they don’t want their customers to pay a premium for using their platform.

…can i use a lifeline?

i only ever saw the high-chair version of that one.

happy for you.

it’s like those ai labyrinth honeypots, but for all traffic!