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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] (finance.yahoo.com)
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[-] doublah@sopuli.xyz 10 points 15 hours ago

I'd argue selling games and selling content in those games is the same market though.

And the problem with Google/Apple wasn't "dominance", but more "absolute control", Apple blocked third party stores completely on their hardware, and Google had secret deals with phone manufacturers where they had to include all the Google apps and couldn't include alternate app stores, and made using third party stores difficult. As long as Valve aren't blocking third party stores on their OS and not being pre-shipped on the OS of most of Steam's customers, there's probably not much of a case.

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