New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits

CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world to Steam Deck@sopuli.xyz – 477 points –

Noticed this update got pushed just now.

Edit: Seems they’re doing this to prevent costs from arbitration. Read comment below.

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I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.

Exactly! Pirate Software talked about this a while back. Steam doesn't want you cutting them out, and then them still being responsible for the bandwidth to download and host your game.

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