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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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[+] -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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