Valve's Gabe Newell argued gamers "have enormous choice" when grilled over Steam's alleged monopoly…
Valve boss Gabe Newell testified in a lawsuit alleging the company holds an illegal monopoly on PC gaming, denying claims that Valve dictates pricing on other platforms or punishes developers for offering discounts elsewhere. Newell argued that gamers have "enormous choice" in where they purchase games, citing Steam, Epic Games Store, Xbox, and direct developer sales as examples.
- Entities
- Company: Valve
- Platform: Xbox
- Topic: Digital Distribution
- Topic: Monopoly
- Person: Gabe Newell
- Platform: PC
- Platform: Steam
- Platform: Epic Games Store
- Game: Counter-Strike 2
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