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Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[-] derpgon@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

How? By being a good company? Look at the Google Play Store lawsuit, and why were they sued, any why they lost. Steam is not abusing it's position. And if you think they do, gimme an example or two please.

[-] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

Steam has several lawsuits and class actions over their head:

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

With a big platform, I would be surprised if there were none. Most of them were dismissed or Valve won. I haven't seen a big one that Valve lost.

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