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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

Noticed this update got pushed just now.

Edit: Seems they’re doing this to prevent costs from arbitration. Read comment below.

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[-] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 months ago

It's false if I remember correctly. Steam prohibits you from selling steam keys outside the store for less than the price on steam. They don't forbid you from selling cheaper elsewhere

[-] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

And that seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless I am missing something

[-] Grenfur@lemmy.one 16 points 2 months ago

Its this one. And the reason is that if steam sells a game at $10 and humble sells you a steam key at $5, steam gets no profit and is 100% responsible for the bandwidth when you donlload it, for hosting the page, for the market, etc etc. Basically steam doesn't want to assume all the work with none of the reward. Which I don't really see an iissue with.

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