• Kecessa
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    8 months ago

    What?

    That’s completely ridiculous

    “You’re guaranteed to get the best price because the main platform prevents other from selling the same product for less.”

    No buddy, it just means Valve’s influence leads to the same effect as a monopoly, they set the price for the whole market if people want to sell on their platform and their platform is the biggest so people want to sell on it.

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      8 months ago

      If I open a store, and I tell people I promise you this is the lowest price in the market. I’m not doing disservice to my customers.

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        8 months ago

        There’s a difference between “this is the lowest price on the market” and “I get to decide what is the lowest price on the market”

        In this situation, the person who created the product can’t enter into an agreement with another platform to sell for less, it’s not the best price possible, it’s the best price Valve agreed to.

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          8 months ago

          I think I see where our disconnect is coming from. In none of the documentation I’ve read does Valve have any opinion about what the price is going to be. That is completely up to the publisher.