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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Well I mean, proton exists pretty much solely because of the steam deck. I will agree that it's been really nice switching to Linux as a result of proton's existence but they didn't just magically do it out of the goodness of their own heart either. It's basically the nicest version of a monopolistic gaming environment that doesn't really allow you to actually own anything that you buy.

It's kind of funny to watch the news with them; they're like two different companies struggling to coexist. One is just as greedy and evil as every other corporation and the other one fights for the consumer, so you end up with a news story one day saying that they're stifling competition by forcing price cuts on only their platform, but then they also are banning all games that force players to watch advertisements. Make make up your mind Steam ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

How do they not allow you to own anything? Steam has drm free games, and if this is about licensing that wasn't different 30 years ago.

Valve is absolutely not perfect and I buy from gog when possible, but my god do I hate that argument. Using steam's drm is the choice of the publisher.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How do they not allow you to own anything? Steam has drm free games, and if this is about licensing that wasnโ€™t different 30 years ago.

its the perpetual license thing, every platform that doesnt directly sell you the product does the same thing, it's the industry standard.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, and video games sold as physical disks did it too.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

they did use DRM, you would be correct about that statement.

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