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Valve owe you 44 quid, according to a £656m lawsuit against the company for allegedly overcharging UK customers“We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games”
“We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games”
In what is possibly the biggest scandal the UK has seen since the last time the price of Freddos went up, a digital rights campaigner is suing Valve for £656m in compensation, accusing the company of overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour. The accompanyingwebsitedescribes the collective action claim as a “ground-breaking legal action,” which is very gamer of them. 16 times the litigation, etc.
“Valve Corporation faces a £656 million collective action claim for overcharging 14 million PC gamers and abusing its dominant position in the UK,” reads the website. “We believe Valve Corporation has been unfairly shutting out competition for PC games and in-game content, which has meant that UK customers have paid too much for these products,” it continues, also accusing the “gaming giant” of “charging an excessive commission – of up to 30% – to publishers.”
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As bothEurogamerand the website’s FAQ point out, this current story could take years before anything more of note happens. Personally speaking, maybe there’s something in that 30% publisher commission being a touch high, but I’ve got no idea how much it realistically takes to keep something like Steam running.
