Comment on 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'

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, and thats literally completely irrelevant.

  The fact that their games are DRM free means that doesn’t matter one iota. If you buy a game from them on a set of hardware you’ll be able to play it on that hardware forever, regardless of whether their desktop client changes.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But if they keep it updated for modern systems that means as time goes on the files they are offering to install… won’t work on old hardware because they’ve been updated to the modern era.

    Sure if you grab a file from them snd never get a newer, more maintained version, it will play on exactly the hardware and software you had when you bought it… But if you lost the install file somehow and went to grab a new copy five years later the updated ones may no longer run on your old hardware

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sure if you grab a file from them snd never get a newer, more maintained version, it will play on exactly the hardware and software you had when you bought it…

      That’s literally the entire point.

      Also, they can still offer the olde versions of the file for download.

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      • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Also, they can still offer the olde versions of the file for download.

        Except in a lot of cases they really don’t.

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