Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.

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• atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Say what you will, every game I’ve bought—I can still play. And I’ve been buying Steam games for over a decade.

  Meanwhile, none of my GameCube discs work on my Switch.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      While you’re not wrong, by that logic, it’s actually fairly trivial to take my Steam downloads drive and run it on any computer even without my Steam account.

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      • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn’t work if they couldn’t authenticate to your Steam account.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You can still play it but increasingly games are becoming very different from what you bought.

    I’ve started noticing a disturbing trend. More and more games that are older being sold at steep discounts or “free to play” and simultaneously jampacked with invasive telemetry and/or ads/microtransactions. And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.

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    • atomicpoet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If I want hacky, I’ll go pirate the game. I pay for them so I don’t need a computer science degree to play them.

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That is what firewalls and sinkholes are for. Stupid telemetry.

      Yet I never noticed such a “trend” in direct combination with steam. The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The whole industry goes to shit, but it’s not steam’s fault.

        1. Steam has the clout to fight back against this
        2. As I already mentioned, it is partially because they don’t allow you to run older versions of games.

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But the vast majority can be played without steam. Mostly by force coughcough but still. I know, still no legal ownership.

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