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It's insane how many people are spreading this bullshit. This is explicitly for stores not using Steam keys! You're right that they should be free to set their own prices. If you actually believe this, you need to be against Valve in this, assuming it proves to be true (which there is solid evidence already it is true).
but... it's not. if you read the article, they made a dlc bundle on their own store where all the dlc was on steam, for cheaper than they were on steam.
Their own store, which does not use Steam keys. That means they should be free to set their own price, right? Steam should only have a say when it's using Steam. They shouldn't get to dictate the price on other stores.
You're arguing against your own best interest here. I don't know if you understand that. A game being cheaper to buy somewhere else is good for all consumers. Sure, their store is worse. That's why they're competing with a lower price. You can choose to pay more and use the better service or pay less and use the worse one. It may even cause Valve to try to compete with the lower price by lowering it themselves. This is good for consumers. We get cheaper games for no cost.
rainbow six siege is an online game that uses steam's backend. as such, all the dlc uplay is selling is in the form of steam keys.
i would love to have cheaper games. i would also love if people learned to read.
Do you have a source for that claim? I have seen no evidence that the uplay version of the game uses the Steam backend to verify ownership. They have their own store that does this. Why would it use Steam? That makes no sense. The article does not make this claim, and I've seen no one else making this claim. Valve doesn't even seem to be making the claim you are.
The only claim is that Ubisoft, on their own store using their own systems, was selling it at a cheaper price than is available on Steam, not that they were using Steam for this. Youre claiming I need to learn to read, but I think you might be reading something that isn't there.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59859024/348/7/in-re-valve-antitrust-litigation/
page 120ish, section 5.2.2, footnotes 519 and forward.
it's the emails in question. i'm reading it as "content parity" is the most important thing for valve.