Valve reportedly almost delisted Rainbow Six Siege from Steam after Ubisoft attempted to sell it cheaper on Uplay

[Redaktion]

The new report has brought attention to how aggressively Valve handles pricing and distribution decisions for games.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Valve-reportedly-almost-delisted-Rainbow-Six-Siege-from-Steam-after-Ubisoft-attempted-to-sell-it-cheaper-on-Uplay.1312602.0.html

[SteveDanger105]

Just list it on your own service or on epic if you have issues with trying to rip off steam gamers

[Duh]

When they control 90% of the market this type of behavior is considered Monopolistic. If Steam did not have that control of the market they wouldn't be able to bully companies that they also rely on to survive (30% kickback from each game sale). Do you really think that WB lowered their game price on steam to match parity to their competitors? More than likely they just raised the prices at the other locations to match the steam price. So who is ripping off Steam gamers? Steam could have lowered the prices on THEIR STORE THEMSELVES but instead wanted every other store to have the same high price as them in order to protect their bottom line. This is a company, not family, and they only care about the money gamers provide not the gamers themselves. Stop deluding yourself, big brother Gabe doesn't care about you

[Stormin]

Steam could have lowered the prices on THEIR STORE THEMSELVES but instead wanted every other store to have the same high price as them in order to protect their bottom line.

No they couldn't. Steam is just a platform to sell games, the only games valve sets the price for are ones they've made themselves. The dev/publisher is responsible for setting their own prices.

Stop deluding yourself, big brother Gabe doesn't care about you

You should probably read the Bloomberg article that's referenced, cos whilst he's no saint, this assessment of yours is well off the mark based on the evidence that has been provided.