If you decide you don’t want your purchased Steam, Xbox Live or Apple iOS game anymore, or if it doesn’t work as promised or at all, what rights do you have legally? I get such questions a LOT. While there is a body of law about this area of consumer protection, sadly there is little in… Continue reading Australia, Steam and consumer legal rights in video games
Category: Antitrust/Competition
Non-story: are Valve and Microsoft breaching competition law? (Answer: No)
There’s been a lot of commentary about competition law (or antitrust law, as it’s known in the USA) and the games industry over the last week or so, focusing in particular on Valve and Microsoft. This is a post to explain why that’s a non-story.