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Epic Game Store’s free giveaways just cause a huge spike in Steam sales, reveals New Blood CEO (frvr.com)
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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Valve enforces same pricing on all stores a game is available on so EGS can’t compete on price

Obvious falsehood. Did you just choose to omit relevant nuance? The post is literally about games which are free on EGS and non-free on Steam.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It’s the first point of agreement Valve signs with a dev publishing on Steam.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    Your screenshot doesn't support your text, and from what I recall they say that:

    • if you put your game on sale cheaper elsewhere (but are selling steam keys), you need to have a similar (not even identical) sale on Steam at some point.
    • You can't undercut Steam's price and sell the freely generated CD keys that add the game to a steam account elsewhere for a lower price.

    That's it. It's actually about the CD keys, not the game itself. There's no rule about selling the game on another store, using that store.

    Found the doc I was thinking of. They actually just say "a worse deal", so it's not even about a lower price.

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3

    Your screenshot there seems to be quoting this page, in fact.

    My point is that they absolutely don't enforce pricing, that was something one dev said in a lawsuit and you'll notice they didn't get agreement from people. You're welcome to check the documentation out, or find any other source that isn't bad reporting based on a lawsuit that wasn't successful?

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