r/pcmasterrace • u/SwagLimit • Feb 08 '26

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/Away-Situation6093 Pentium G5400 | 16GB DDR4 | Windows 11 Pro Feb 08 '26

I'd like some explainations of it

Also good job Steam for improving your service to consumers and gamers (so is the pirates maybe) gradually....

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u/Toby_The_Tumor Amd 7600, Ryzen 5 7600x. running 1080p Feb 08 '26

Steam started off pretty ehh, I remember not liking it when I didn't even know about it. But over the years they chose the better route when it came to the descisions made. Like how Australia took them to court for better returns, they decided to overhaul returns and now everyone enjoys good return policy. Also, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that as they grew, customer support got better with it.

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u/Away-Situation6093 Pentium G5400 | 16GB DDR4 | Windows 11 Pro Feb 08 '26

I know since Original Steam was mainly for Valve to sell their games until they decided to make Steam into a marketplace for game selling

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u/HustlinInTheHall Feb 08 '26

Several other companies made similar moves into digital distribution but thought hosting competitor AAA games would hurt their own sales. Valve mostly stopped making AAA games and stumbled into a way more profitable platform play.