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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oji@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I actually own
The funny thing is, you don’t own them.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks 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
kadup@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn’t work if they couldn’t authenticate to your Steam account.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks 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.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago