Lawsuit claims Valve is abusing its market dominance to keep prices high

[Zkuq]

DonFerrari said:

Zkuq said:

This might have been reasonable when everyone was taking the same cut to e.g. prevent publishers from charging more for letting gamers buy games on their store of choice (typically Steam), but right now it seems to be hurting actual competition, so I kind of would like something to be done about it. That said, I do worry it would mean publishers would simply raise their prices on Steam instead of lowering them elsewhere, so there's that. I just can't see publishers lowering prices elsewhere.

Devs raising their price on Steam would either allow them to get the same cut and possibly drive sales away from Steam and make the other stores more competitive (that is the biggest reason to offer things cheaper). But having a big marketshare and preventing that from happening isn`t something cool.

Sure, but from a consumer perspective (i.e. my perspective), raising prices on Steam would not be desirable. Competition should lower prices, not raise them. I'm not sure what the ideal solution would be or if there even is one, but at this point there are definitely some concerns with simply allowing lower prices on competing stores. It's something I would ideally like to see happen, but it's also something that concerns me in the situation we've ended up in.