Comment on The PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirement

• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Until the day after Gabe kicks the bucket.

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• sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Read their EULA, you license your “purchase”. You don’t own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.

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  • crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Do any stores say you own the games? I feel like this isn’t a Steam specific thing

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    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      GOG has no DRM. Once purchased you can download the files and own it. You could even write your games to CDs if you wanted and play like the old days.

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      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I own a lot of games on GoG, but I fail to see the practical difference. If GoG were to go under, there’s not going to be any free service hosting all your data and the games for download. It all disappears, just like if Steam were to go under.

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  • DiabolicalBird@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The vast majority of digital purchases are licenses, this isn’t something new or unique to Steam. Digital purchases where you actually own the product are more the exception than the rule.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Even when you were buying games on physical media, you didn’t own the software itself. You just owned a disc with the software on it.

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    • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then let’s support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won’t change until the consumer tells them what’s important

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