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Greedy AAA companies can't comprehend the Valve mindset. (lemmy.world)

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just possible. It's inevitable.

We allowed Gabe and others to kill physical ownership of games.

We need rights to actually own it, and nobody seems willing to grant us that. If I can't trade my license to somebody else, I don't own it. If I can't play it when the servers are gone, I don't own it.

[–] Pendorilan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Well, I can tell you if I lose access to my steam library I'm pirating every single one of my games onto my harddrive.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

I'll wager that when that happens you'll no longer be able to actually buy 99% of those games anyway.

[–] Quatlicopatlix@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

The good thing is taht the standard steam drm is so easy to break that all of the games that just rely on steam for drm can be cracked without much work at least for single player.