Valve tells judge, not the public, why it dropped Steam’s forced arbitration clause

Court filing explains that it was deemed “unenforceable”

Valve’s recent surprise update to its Steam user agreement that will finally allow Steam players to sue the company didn’t come out of nowhere.

It happened, the company explained in a new court filing reviewed by Game File, because an arbitrator recently ruled that the mandatory arbitration clause in Steam’s terms of service wasn’t enforceable.

Valve did not mention this in their post to Steam’s millions of users last week about the change.