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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Steam doesn't require DRM to publish on their platform.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Neither does epic.

[–] NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

No, but they publicly say that they won't support Linux because they WANT to be able to put kernel level malware. Whereas steam does not. They are not equal in this respect.