A profile of Valve, which PrivCo estimates generated $5.2B in revenue and $1.5B in net income in 2025, as lawsuits allege its Steam store abuses market power
Lawsuits in the US and the UK allege the company's Steam store is abusing its market power. Valve disagrees.
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@cecianasta
Cecilia D'Anastasio
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New — Valve: anticorporate hero or big tech, but small? Gamers know Valve as a freewheeling enterprise, but previously unreported docs show controversial business practices that, critics say, restrict both gamers and game-makers. Feature w/ @AustinCarr: https://www.bloomberg.com/…
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@cecianasta
Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Valve is having its antitrust moment. Our deep dive into its business and culture shows how the highly profitable company is walking a fine line between gamer-populism and corporate cutthroat. https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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@business
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Game developers are suing Valve for abusing the power its Steam store has over the PC games market, in litigation with echoes of antitrust suits against Apple and Google https://www.bloomberg.com/...
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Valve, the Anticorporate Hero of the Games Industry, Has Its Antitrust Moment
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Valve, the Anticorporate Hero of the Games Industry, Has Its Antitrust Moment
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Valve, the Anticorporate Hero of the Games Industry, Has Its Antitrust Moment
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Gameranx
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Rumor: Valve Threatened To Remove Ubisoft & WB Games Titles From Steam Over Pricing Parity
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Valve, the Anticorporate Hero of the Games Industry, Has Its Antitrust Moment
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@barrydinglesak
Dick Snickers
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@TimSweeneyEpic Bribing third party developers into non-profitable exclusivity deals just to stick it to Valve isn't “fair competition” either you dipshit. The EGS offers nothing of value as an alternative to Steam other than exclusive rights to games they had no hand in making.
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@georgebsocial
George Broussard
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@TimSweeneyEpic This is the same crap places like Walmart pulled on us in the 90s. We had the rights to sell boxed copies of our games direct, but were also in retail via a publisher. So on something like Duke or Shadow Warrior we were offering a $5 discount buying directly from …
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@gorellana09
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@TimSweeneyEpic Or the publisher can have the same sale on both storefronts? When are you going to understand that we like Steam because it works. Other stores lack the polish and basic usefulness we need. How many years has Epic store been out? And yet it's never gotten better.
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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Very similar to the allegations against Amazon for taking high fees while retaliating against product makers who offer better prices on lower-fee stores. Price competition is the #1 opportunity for new market entrants to compete! https://x.com/...
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@timsweeneyepic
Tim Sweeney
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Is this the “fair competition” praised by recent articles? If a store with dominant market share taking a 30% cut can bully developers into not passing on savings to customers on competing stores with lower fees, then competition doesn't stand a chance. [image]
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@pirat_nation
@pirat_nation
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Newly revealed court documents from an ongoing antitrust lawsuit claim that Valve once threatened to remove Rainbow Six Siege from Steam after Ubisoft tried selling the game at a lower price on its own storefront, Uplay. According to the reports, Ubisoft introduced a cheaper [ima…
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@ghhill1911
@ghhill1911
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@Pirat_Nation Valve was in the RIGHT. This sort of thing happens all the time in every commercial industry. A manufacturer undercuts its distribution in an attempt at higher profits. And it's BS. This is why MAP pricing agreements exist in distribution contracts. It protects ever…
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@linalavendula
Lina
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Why are people framing this as a good thing? Uplay is terrible dont get me wrong but. This is a bad thing? People (inlcuding me) has been given the impression that the Steam monopoly is mostly becuase Steam is just the best platform to host your game on, in like 99% of cases.