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11-22-14, 10:38 AM | #1 |
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Valve Flagrantly Violates Sherman Antitrust Act
http://alienbabeltech.com/abt/viewto...p?f=60&t=33165
I discuss the violation here.
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11-23-14, 08:19 AM | #2 |
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I read that somewhere, too.
What Steam/Valve practically demands is that other companies/services providing the given game, shall be barred from offering the same content and product at a lower price, which therefore prevents competing with Steam by more competitive pricing. Since Steam only serves as kind of a reseller, but is not the manufacturer or rpeucer of the games, that indeed is unacceptable. They want to forbid their competitors to outbid them. It also aims at establishing kind of an non-allowed price fixing, probably violating anti-cartell laws. That simply is a total and complete No-Go.
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11-23-14, 10:46 AM | #3 | |
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11-23-14, 12:07 PM | #4 |
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This thread is a bit stupid.
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11-23-14, 04:02 PM | #5 |
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Yeah, my cohorts at ABT can't understand kindergarten math.
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11-23-14, 04:07 PM | #6 | |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transat...nt_Partnership "Partnership", yeah right [/cyn] |
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12-03-14, 09:08 AM | #7 | |
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This is what Square Enix said about Order of War servers:
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12-03-14, 10:34 AM | #8 | |
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12-03-14, 03:47 PM | #9 | |
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@Jim - I have remained calm and will continue to do so...
(My inquiry about Tribesman was simply in reference to the argument style. If coldfront or anyone else took that as an insult, well that has more to do with how negatively that person must view Tribesman than it does anything else. No insult was intended.) @coldfront - Here is where your logic is failing. Users who purchased access to Order of War: Challenge did not own the game, they merely leased it. That was spelled out in the ToS. The lease expired when Square Enix took down the multiplayer servers. Pay attention to the last sentence from the announcement by Square Enix: Quote:
Square Enix chose for the game to end. In essence, they ended the lease that the purchasers had - with the result of a then unplayable game. As a "hosting" distributor, Steam legally would have been engaged in copyright infringement (IP law) had they allowed access to a game after the lease was expired by Square Enix. In reality, they had little choice but to remove it from the user libraries. Failing to do so could have gotten them sued - and they would have lost. Steam didn't own the game. The users didn't own the game. Square Enix did - and they said no one could play it anymore. Blame whomever you like - its obvious that facts won't change your mind. That is ok though, because your entitled to your opinion. Doesn't matter one whit to me - because I will continue to use Steam, along with Origin (though somebody better fix my Dragon Age Inquisition!!!) and other services. Use whatever you want and be angry all you want. Ultimately, you either will do something about what you feel is a grievous wrong by trying to shut down the big, bad, evil Steam machine, or you will deal with it. Either way, the sun will still come up tomorrow. I wish ya the best and relegate you to my ignore list.....
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