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Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's weird to me how people(are they?) here bend over backwards to defend a monopolistic drm platform like steam.

I get gamers like their games. But come on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think it's because there's no real competition and nobody wants to be buying DVDs (blu-rays?) nowadays.

Consider that the only other storefront that treats its' users with any sort of dignity is GoG and many major publishers would rather avoid it because it has a policy of being DRM free, so you lose out on a lot of games by sticking to GoG for everything.

You're left with Steam, Epic Games Store, and some other platforms nobody's ever heard of. Epic Games' policy is "we don't need a better store interface because it doesn't affect sales" and "there's no need to support Linux, nobody uses it". Steam has a good-enough UI and not only supports Linux for Linux-native games, but also integrates Proton (which Valve also develops) so you can play Windows games on Linux.

Sure Epic will take less of a cut from publishers, but I'll have an inferior experience and probably pay the same.