It's not necessarily bad for what would happen to Steam, but the precident that it would set. Why should a company be forced to change its prices and policies just because some pieces of shit other companies cannot successfully compete?

... I know when stated so plainly, that would include very common and sensible laws like antitrust laws, but what part of Steam having the same cut they've always had is antitrust?

Seems very unlikely. Are their fees bullshit? Yes. Is Steam a monopoly? Sure. Have they achieved this through anti-competitive measures? Absolutely not that I'm aware of.

It's largely that they were just the first game store but it's also that they are continuously the best game store, on all fronts. While other game stores are tripping over themselves to make the experience shittier, unable to complete the simplest of tasks like logging in or launching a game.

I will preface with. I know nothing about how things work.. but I suppose there might be potential in if that goes through that there's less money to put towards things like Linux development and may have to raise price on steam machine even more.. that's just a potential negative that comes to mind

They're more likely to force them to add age verification

After hearing other sides, I kind of take steam side on this lawsuit. For one, cross-platform DLCs are not technically possible. The DLC has to authenticate with the base license access, the cloud saves and every other system. It's the same way on consoles. You can't buy the PS5 game and then expect to buy the DLC on Xbox or something.. it's just not how that works.

As for the not allowing the games to be permanently priced cut on other stores, steam offers discoverability like no other platform offers as well as the achievements the reviews the workshop. It prevents someone from listing their game on steam for all the benefits it offers but then sending users to other platforms to get it cheaper.

There have been things steam has done wrong in the past that have been righted with lawsuits but I don't really feel like this particular thing is a anti-competitive practice as much as just having a more feature-rich platform and not letting that be taken advantage of without getting something back.

The only real issue I have with valve is using drm but that's not changing anytime soon