Consumer Competition Claims (CCC), through GameClaim, has launched a new class action against Valve in the Netherlands.
The group claims Valve controls around 85% of the PC game market and uses rules that make it harder for developers to sell games cheaper on other stores.
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Every few months people call Valve a monopoly, and when you look inside, it's just companies like Epic shooting themselves in the foot while Valve continues to offer a reliable and superior product
Valve's Gabe Newell believes Steam doesn't have a monopoly, saying that gamers have “enormous choice” about where they buy games
“Whether they buy the game on an Xbox, or Steam, or Epic Games Store, or whether they buy it directly from software developers”