Your screenshot doesn’t support your text, and from what I recall they say that:
if you put your game on sale cheaper elsewhere (but are selling steam keys), you need to have a similar (not even identical) sale on Steam at some point.
You can’t undercut Steam’s price and sell the freely generated CD keys that add the game to a steam account elsewhere for a lower price.
That’s it. It’s actually about the CD keys, not the game itself. There’s no rule about selling the game on another store, using that store.
Found the doc I was thinking of. They actually just say “a worse deal”, so it’s not even about a lower price.
Your screenshot there seems to be quoting this page, in fact.
My point is that they absolutely don’t enforce pricing, that was something one dev said in a lawsuit and you’ll notice they didn’t get agreement from people. You’re welcome to check the documentation out, or find any other source that isn’t bad reporting based on a lawsuit that wasn’t successful?
Your screenshot doesn’t support your text, and from what I recall they say that:
That’s it. It’s actually about the CD keys, not the game itself. There’s no rule about selling the game on another store, using that store.
Found the doc I was thinking of. They actually just say “a worse deal”, so it’s not even about a lower price.
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys#3
Your screenshot there seems to be quoting this page, in fact.
My point is that they absolutely don’t enforce pricing, that was something one dev said in a lawsuit and you’ll notice they didn’t get agreement from people. You’re welcome to check the documentation out, or find any other source that isn’t bad reporting based on a lawsuit that wasn’t successful?