Steam could be heading to court

[Jim]

Mmm. San Diego. Drink it in. It always goes down smooth. Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diago, which of course in German means "a whale's vagina".

[C.C.]

Fucking Germans man

You hurt meine Gefühle, friend

Mmm. San Diego. Drink it in. It always goes down smooth. Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diago, which of course in German means "a whale's vagina".

I, as a German, confirm this as true.

[WarWood]

European court?

Valve wins, everything goes as usual.
Valve loses, Germans get no Steam.

It's ironic though, that a consumer-friendly mandate would result in no options for the consumer.

And the Germans will start to sell their expensive accounts :P

[Scotia]

Who the hell goes to court with a multi billion dollar company knowing that they can't win. I will put bets right here and now that Valve will win if this goes through.

[Gray]

Well, this is a lose lose situation without a doubt.
If this goes through, it'll still backfire in some way, I assure you.

[[MPGH]Ghost]

You hurt meine Gefühle, friend



I, as a German, confirm this as true.

Entschuldigung, ich spreche..little deutch

[DєfKOniK]

valve is too powerful and will obliterate anyone who takes them to court. It's like taking itunes to court because consumers can't sell "their" music LOL! Germany is so fucking retarted. Im moving back to canada in like a month!

[Delko DJ]

this is a very delicate court cuz germans are good on those things

[Paladin]

Fucking Germans man

One moment they're killing everyone, the next they want consumer rights.

[Lehsyrus]

One moment they're killing everyone, the next they want consumer rights.

Fucking died at this one.


Either way the VSVB is going to win this one hands down. Germany passed a law allowing people to sell digital distributed merchandise.

I hope Valve makes it so reselling games is even more expensive though, Steam was always about your account being it's own entity, having your games on said account. Allowing people to sell Steam games hurts the publisher and the developers, good games are going to be stuck with AAA studios and even then they may make shittier games that cut cost corners.

[ap0.]

If you think they'll loose....

lose*
Learn to spell bitch.

[Jay777]

Steam, will win because it's Steam.
Darp

[Insomniac]

steam wins, gg

[TGhost]

I Agree to being able to sell your game, But only if you buy the game in the store and you MUST use steam to use said game... Digitally purchased games are not the same as having a hard copy... either way I don't buy games anyways so doesn't matter much to me...

[Colourful]

lose*
Learn to spell bitch.

My mistake, thanks for pointing that out.