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Valve: "In the rare occurrences where we're made aware that the game is being sold on another platform for a lower price, our practice is to have a conversation with the publisher."
Lawyer: "And use the threat of not promoting them or stop selling it altogether to get them to either raise the price elsewhere or lower the price on Steam, right?"
Valve: "Our practice is to have a conversation with the developer to understand why the price is lower elsewhere and see if we can figure out a way to get Steam's price to a similar price that it is on other platforms."
Lawyer: "And if they refuse to lower the Steam price?
Valve: "If we get to a situation -- again, this is rare. If we get to a situation where a partner is telling us that the price needs to be lower on other platforms than it is on Steam, then we will typically choose not to run curated marketing during times where that game is being discounted, if that is where the price is lower, or around a launch if it's a around -- if it's a price at launch time."
