children’s poet Shel Silverstein
What? Is that the same Shel Silverstein as 2 time Grammy winning, Johnny Cash swongwriter, Academy awards and Golden Globe nominee, and Playboy Cartoonist, also prolific one act playwright, Shel Silverstein?
The answer is yes.
I just think he needs someone to shout out his other works in here in case you didn't know.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
That's the policy on steam keys. If you are not using their steam keys it's not covered by their contract agreement at least.
The lawsuit is not yet finished and while we can take their complaints into account we can't take them for fact.
The case was already dismissed once because they argued the 30% was controlling the market but it's been there since day 1 of their storefront and has not changed to force game price changes. Beyond that they argue that Valve bought servers to take them offline to push players to them but... That's not really on this point of price controlling or the ability sell non steam keys.
Literally RuneScape does this by offering memberships not available on steam.
If you see something I am missing from the lawsuit please let me know, preferably without the hostility if you can manage.