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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Thank you for the link! It helped putting things into proper nuance and context (indcluding throwing away that ridiculous notion that the ‘Steam Store’ and the ‘Steam Gaming Platform’ are two completly different things in different markets).

    However, reading the whole thing, it sounds to me like while the court dismissed some of the claims (1 to 4 and 7 apparently), they agreed that Wolfire and the other plaitiffs had the right to ‘plausibly allege unlawful conduct’ about the ‘Most-favored-nations restraints’ (the part where Steam forces publishers to set prices on all stores without steam keys being involved) without mentioning anything more on the subject.

    I’m not americain so I’m not sure if I understand correctly, but that means the ruling isn’t over and it’ll go into an appeal court, right?


  • Um, I’ve read the complaint from top to bottom and it claims way more than just ‘Valve wouldn’t give them keys to resell’ if they’re not at the same price as on steam. It also claims Valve puts a ‘Price Veto’ clause which allows them to delist games from Steam if the publisher gives bigger sales on other platforms, even if they do not using steam keys, which does sound super uncompetitive to me.

    Although I’ll agree the evidence listed in the complaint seem a bit on the light side. Do you know if the trial happened yet? And if so, do you know where I can find what resolution they reached?




  • Autant je suis pas d’accord avec sa réaction, autant je pense que c’est plutôt une histoire de posture et de timing. En condamnant X maintenant, aux yeux des Républicains américains (non pas que j’en ai grand chose à foutre de leur opinion), ils accuseraient l’Europe d’ingérence dans leurs élections et de favoriser les Démocrates (ainsi que toutes les conspirations du monde probablement en nous metant sur un pied d’égalité avec les russes).

    Cela tenderais encore plus les relations UE-ÉU que j’imagine von der Leyen veut conserver à tout prix, même à travers le sacrifice de nos valeurs (une opinion que partage malheuresement une bonne partie des pays de l’UE à l’exception de la France). Pas que cela ne changera grand chose au final, si l’on considère à quel point Trump deteste l’Europe, et que eux interfèrent allègrement dans nos élections mais bon, l’espoir, même vain, fait vivre ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.