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Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? (lemmy.world)
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Seems like buying games to remove them from your competitor is a scummier thing to do.

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[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not reading the Google summary.

Okay, but your stats are still wrong? (Edit: so are some of mine though, disregard me being a dick here). Using AI wasn't my point.

If so then Epic should have caught up by now, no?

Is making 1 000 million in a year with something like 5% not catching up? Do you think any of these billion dollar stores are running at cost?

Please back that up.

Having a vampire sucking up 30% of your revenue does affect a company but quantifying it would mean some pretty in depth studies and getting information from bankrupt companies. I do know most devs don't like it. https://gdconf.com/article/gdc-state-of-the-industry-most-devs-feel-steam-s-30-cut-isn-t-justified-many-prefer-10-15/

And yes, all those points you mention are happening, but having a huge chunk of your profits taken like that obviously aggravates it.

What does that 30% pay for? Do you know?

I know it pays for Gabens yacht fleet worth 1.5 billion lol. We do have rough numbers. We know their employees count and revenue, and that they are making an estimated 11 million per employee from an article by the financial Times. That doesn't include data atorage but I doubt the cost of offering downloads is anywhere near there revenue.

I own more computer games on disc from physical stores than I do from steam.

Stores don't even stock physical discs for PC Games. How many of those are from the past 5 years? Last year had 95% of games sold digitally (PC and consoles). https://twicethebits.com/2025/06/19/the-shift-to-digital-gaming-why-physical-sales-are-declining/

But I do not trust the developer who originally brought the lawsuit

What dev? This is about a UK lawsuit on behalf of UK gamers. I can't find anything about a devs involvement.

Nobody is suing Nintendo, PlayStation, or Microsoft over this.

PlayStation is getting sued for it, the trial is for March. This is specifically about the 30% (https://www.catribunal.org.uk/cases/15277722-alex-neill-class-representative-limited). (https://woodsford.com/woodsford-funded-5bn-class-action-against-sony-playstation-gets-go-ahead-in-uk-competition-appeal-tribunal/) .

I want to point out that this is pure whataboutism, just like the OP. But what about epic, but what about nintendo. All of them deserve to get sued.

I also never said

Then the proper response would be "yes, steam does deserve to get sued, epics behavior doesn't even have anything to do with the subject, but they also deserve to get sued". Like what's your point then? Why make a bullet point of things steam does well if you aren't trying to imply that they are "good enough to be allowed to abuse".

I feel like you scanned right over half of what I did say.

We are both writing walls of text.