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PC Gamer
Joshua Wolens

Dutch non-profit set to take Valve to court for keeping game prices high

Blind justice over a Dutch flag on the left, Gabe Newell looking pensive on the right.

If you were to make a list of every concept you associate with Steam—even if you had hours, days, weeks to come up with it—chances are 'high prices' wouldn't make a showing. Quite the opposite: if you're anything like me, you associate Steam with swingeing sales that let you pick up vast troves of games (that you never play) for pennies.

But high prices are nevertheless at the centre of a new campaign by the Netherlands' Consumer Competition Claims Foundation, a Dutch non-profit organisation that says its aim is to "protect consumers against unfair commercial practices, including breaches of competition law, breaches of consumer law and other unlawful conduct."

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