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Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"You no longer have the liberty of buying a game from wherever you want. You must consider whether your store is going to continue receiving patches, whether the store itself is going to continue supporting your hardware and software, and whether your friends online bought the game from the same store."

So are we pissed at the entire industry, or just Steam? You don't have the liberty to buy anything from wherever you want. Go download Fortnite from Steam, buddy! Oop! It ain't there!? Here's hoping he deleted the rest of his online accounts while he was at it, but online blowhards tend to be hypocrites.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're only underscoring Kaldaien's point about Steam by bringing up Fortnite, given that Epic is willing to release their products on other stores, whether it's mobile or Microsoft Store on PC, as long as the terms are reasonable, not junk fees, as Sweeney puts it.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

^ Mental gymnastics

The inverse is also true. Go buy Half Life on Origin. Can't? Oh no! Monopoly! blows siren

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

Yes, Valve is quite consistent about keeping things locked to its store. Steamworks is also limited to Steam. Proton is an exception, but the LGPL license of Wine simply wouldn't allow it to be otherwise. Publishing the source code is required if building on it rather than just using it as a component.