>Valve Corp. must face antitrust litigation over claims that “most favored nation” policies for its Steam distribution platform have driven up video game prices across the industry, a federal judge in Seattle ruled. >The company “allegedly enforces this regime through a combination of written and unwritten rules” imposing its own conditions on how even “non-Steam-enabled games are sold and priced,” Coughenour wrote. “These allegations are sufficient to plausibly allege unlawful conduct.” >The case is Wolfire Games LLC v. Valve Corp., W.D. Wash., No. 21-cv-563, 5/6/22.
steambros I don't feel so good, this might be the end...
>Wolfire Games Why the fuck would a relatively unknown indie studio who've made, quite frankly, unimpressive niche games for a small cult following sue against Valve?
Sebastian Barnes
Will steam face a fine for this or is there more to it?
Leo Hall
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Brayden Richardson
>Wolfire Games LLC again?
Gabriel Morales
Furrydev mad at steam because game fail
Anyway this just means it has to actually go to court. Where they have to actually present evidence.
Elijah Price
Probably someone else bankrolling the fees to engage in proxied legal harassment. Like microsoft through corsair with the Steam Controller lawsuit nonsense.
Carter Lopez
The dude is being paid by Epic to sue Valve. He's currently using that same corporate law firm Epic used against Apple, that firm is megamoney tier and well outside the financial range for this half failed indie dev, so guess who's funding it.
Jaxon White
>Probably someone else bankrolling the fees to engage in proxied legal harassment. It's the same law firm Epic used against Apple, so the math isn't hard to do here
Christopher Fisher
What a fucking loser, I wish nothing but the worst for them.
