I can’t deny that Steam has a large marketshare over the digital video game distribution market, and that it could abuse its position, and that the 30% distributor cut is steep. All true. Is it currently abusing its position? Arguably yes and no.

Looking through the evidence document provided in the video, the alleged link between decreased % of multihoming indicating the enforcement of a PMFN is weak IMO. Steam’s support for Linux, its own Steam Deck, good customer service, return policy, family sharing and remote play are major reasons to be a Valve patron, not always about price.

The evidence at 9:05 in the video that suggests Valve says they “stop selling them altogether” was in response to a Steam Key inquiry. The other quotes were related to removing it from the front page and sales feature pages (not delisting but not there unless you search for it). That’s not delisting but perhaps it is anti-competitively deranking it. I’m not sure what the rules are though, like a grocery store doesn’t have to put a product at the front of a store when a rival has a steeper sale for it, but they could ask for the same discount while offering to make it similarly visible. Overall it’s not nearly as serious as OOP makes it seem.

The 2 reasons you provide are actually why games that offer an offline mode functionality (more specifically that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet) are exempted from needing to follow this law.

I don’t think this is a preemption of the SKG campaign but actually one of the realistic goals of that campaign. I don’t think the ability to rent software for a limited time is an issue, but tricking people into thinking they can use something they purchased forever, to have it unilaterally taken away due to 3rd party licensing, decommissioning servers or other excuse is the problem.

This is a low bar I know, but Mr. Buttigieg did waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than Sen. McConnell’s wife Ms. Chao as Secretary of Transportation.

Well, the concerning thing for me is less the hack as much as this connected system having these capabilities in the first place. A dealer should not be able to open and start my car without my keys (or a copy of them), a physical lock pick or a pry bar…

Oooh is this the 9.9 severity vulnerability teased earlier? If it’s printers, that would make total sense, those machines are the spawn of hell.

Don’t give me hope…

Compared to other national and international chains, I’ll pick Dominos. Here in Vancouver there are just so many local pizza shops and smaller chains to choose from, even the cheaper/quantity over quality chains taste better than both Pizza Hut and Domino’s (I’m thinking Freshslice for the Western Canadians in the room). Even corporate pizza events here don’t go with Domino’s, which was the go to when I was elsewhere.

Thank you for bringing content from that one sub I forgot I loved on that other site, was all about photos of haul trucks and massive excavators wrong side up.

Ok thank you CBC for not bending over backwards for the Conservatives. This is a proper title.

I’m expecting PostMedia oligarchs to publish “Trudeau just barely squeaks by relentless motions of non-confidence”

Thank you to everyone in this community that filled out ISED’s consulatation survey I posted last month

Putting the entire story in a tag is the most tumblr thing ever

Ubisoft might have to get used to not owning high value stock, if they keep pushing through anti-consumer bullshit in their games.

Note you may want to check your versions and avoid updating in case they patch out debug or bypass functionalities. I vaguely remember concerns about that on some models.

Yeah media outlets need to start saying “Conservatives bring up this week’s false outrage, moral panic and pearl clutching”

Steam is in a rightly deserved position of good reputation.

I am amazed that they have not entered the “squeeze every dollar out of the good reputation and brand we built” phase that so many companies have gone through in the past decade. I hope Newell can keep it this way for a long time.

His late brother Rob would say dumb shit like this all the time.

I’ve been saying this is an absolutely bullshit fee, they just put it in without any change to their site. Last time I went to the theatre early to book at the box office just to avoid it.

If Trump wins, we’re gonna be completely fucked in Canada. If Harris wins and the political noise from there starts to quiet down, people will hear Poilievre’s antics more clearly.

Super Mario Bros. 3 proves this is true.

Trudeau pleass usurp the Britsh Monarch so we can have your handsome face on our coins thanks.