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New lawsuit by five players in California federal court accuses Valve of abusing its power to keep PC game prices high.As reported by THR, this lawsuit claims Valve is not maintaining its dominance in the market PCs by offering better prices on Steam than other platforms, but does so by abusing its power to require developers to enter what is known as a “most favored nations” clause.
“Valve Corporation’s Steam platform is the dominant platform for game developers to distribute and sell PC games in the United States,” states the complaint handled by attorneys for Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. “But the Steam platform doesn’t maintain its dominance through better prices than competing platforms. Instead, Valve is abusing the market power of the Steam platform by demanding that game developers conclude a “ most favored nations ” provision contained in the Steam distribution agreement whereby the game developers agree that the price of a PC game on the Steam platform will be the same price as the developers of games sell their PC games on other platforms. “