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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Then they're all shocked Pikachu that people are so determined to emulate them. You know what games aren't being jailbroken en masse right now? Steam games. Because the store has been trustworthy since day one. They may break that trust but it hasn't happened yet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure I understand the comparison. Steam DRM is easy to remove, and there's no device to jailbreak as it's just a PC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that's my point, that they've built such a easy to use trustworthy store that everyone just buys it because what's the point of stealing anything from them. Vs Nintendo when that's the first thing people start working on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But everyone doesn't, piracy is still rampant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

case in point,

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Piracy not a thing from pc games?

Then yeah, preserving games will be as problem, but it's not a Nintendo specific issue.

Say valve goes under, think you'll still have games accessible?

As far as know, only gog allows for backup.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Some Steam games don't come with any DRM and function like games on GOG.

https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

It's a pain to deal with it, just pointing out that there are Steam games that are fully DRM free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

I mean, PC games are constantly pirated across the world, but Steam has done things right. Switch games somewhat, although the difficulty means it's not that popular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

What? Steam's DRM is so broken that most games are available on pirate sites within minutes of their release.