Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.
oji@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually own
The funny thing is, you don’t own them.
Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.
oji@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually own
The funny thing is, you don’t own them.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Out of the thousands of games I have, not once have I noticed anything like you describe.
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago
Oh well if you haven’t experienced it, it must not exist then 🤷
smeg@feddit.uk 10 months ago
FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months 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 10 months ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 10 months ago