Apple posted:

Apple’s Request 2 is very narrow. It simply requests documents sufficient to show Valve’s: (a)total yearly sales of apps and in-app products; (b) annual advertising revenues from Steam; (c)annual sales of external products attributable to Steam; (d) annual revenues from Steam; and (e)annual earnings (whether gross or net) from Steam. Apple has gone as far as requesting this information in any readily accessible format, but Valve refuses to produce it.

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Request 32 asks for documents sufficient to show: (a) the name of each App on Steam; (b) the date range when the App was available on Steam; and (c) the price of the App and any in-app product available on Steam. This is basic information relating to the identity and availability of games over time on Steam, is necessary to determine the scope and breadth of the digital distribution marketplace, and is “relevant to showing competition” between these platforms.

Valve posted:

Apple wrongly claims those requests are narrow. They are not. Apple gave Valve a list of 436 video games it says are available on the Epic Game Store and Steam, and (a) demanded Valve identify, from 2015 to the present, every version and all digital content or items for each of these games on Steam, then (b) provide exhaustive information about all of them, including:

• The dates on sale, plus every price and price change, from 2015 to the present (RFP 32);
  
• Gross revenues for each game version and item, broken down individually (RFP 2); and
  
• All of Valve’s revenues related to these versions, content and items (RFP 2).
  

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Later, in seeking to compel Samsung, this Court noted that “Apple firmly takes the view that in the Epic case, the relevant market is Epic alone.” Id. (Dkt. 296 at 4). Valve is not in either of these markets — Valve is not Epic, and Fortnite is not available on Steam.

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Apple claims the information it demands is uniquely obtainable from Valve, yet much of what Apple seeks is sales and pricing information for third party games. That information belongs to the third party developers of those games, not Valve. But instead of seeking it from those developers — and being required to establish substantial need to obtain their information — Apple takes a shortcut by subpoenaing Valve.

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Somehow, in a dispute over mobile apps, a maker of PC games that does not compete in the mobile market or sell “apps” is being portrayed as a key figure. It’s not. The extensive and highly confidential information Apple demands about a subset of the PC games available on Steam does not show the size or parameters of the relevant market and would be massively burdensome to pull together. Apple’s demands for further production should be rejected.

cool av posted:

Flimf posted:

Not to keep harping on Diablo, but since many people mentioned it:
https://twitter.com/Diablo/status/1362937581177077767

Kin posted:

I noticed that the new version of it is out with combined with EA access, so i'm wondering if it's to do with that.

John Murdoch posted:

Pretty sure all three of those games have been free on some crusty old corner of Bnet for ages, but hey, Blizzard has to find some way to make money without actually making anything new.

Anno posted:

I just assume it’ll be an EGS key.

Anno posted:

If it has a Steam key option presumably it's Ultimate. Which would be super cool and I hope is true! More than happy to be wrong.

repiv posted:

HZDs engine was never originally designed to run on PC

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

how was the first expansion? are there any marauders in it?

err posted:

Is there a Steam sale this week?

Hogama posted:

https://twitter.com/simoncarless/status/1387500559041654785

quote:

We’ve heard everyone loud and clear and apologize for the way these changes were rolled out. We are now taking a moment to pause, collect constructive feedback and be more transparent about the path forward.

Today, we’ll be turning sliders back on for all customers on our bundle pages while we take more time to review feedback and consider sliders and the importance of customization for purchases on bundle pages in the long term.

In the coming weeks, we’ll roll out the updated design which will include sliders that work exactly as they did previously. Once the new design is live, we will continue to iterate on it, incorporating feedback from the community into its ongoing evolution.

K8.0 posted:

Speaking of whacky pseudo-life-simulator games, I wish the disaster survival genre would come back. In the early-mid 2000s there were a bunch of Japanese games, mostly on the PS2, that were about ridiculous survival scenarios. Disaster Report and Raw Danger are hilariously bad games that probably pioneered the genre, but I remember there being a few others - one set on a sinking cruise ship, another being about a fire in a massive skyscraper. They all had common traits of multiple characters, hilarious contrivances to put the characters in absurd situations, and really entertaining (if not good) character relationships/development. I feel like reviving this genre and crossing it over with modern adventure games could actually be really good. I think it could be a lot more interesting than generic horror villain revenge plot #95.

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

same with that comment on phil spencer (xbox) talking regularly with gabe.

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

it's probably expected that the player will usually be moving and the running animation will hide it. little hard to hide when the shooting animation comes with literally 0 motion on almost all of her body though.

Rusty posted:

It runs Steam OS, which is based on Arch, does that mean the game has to be able to run on Linux to run on this thing?

Khanstant posted:

Can u hook this up to a valve index and finally get the portable vr experience everyone craves?

Veotax posted:

Also a Knights of the Old Republic remake was announced. Console exclusive to PS5, so that means a PC release. No idea if that will be at launch or later.

Ugly In The Morning posted:

Every Sony published exclusive like that has hit Steam at launch, haven’t they?