Steam didn’t do that. Even Super Nintendo cartridges tried to claim in the Terms and Conditions that you legally didn’t own the copy you paid for. It was never contested, and thus we have the current software ownership debacle.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
I dunno, killing the idea of ownership of games was pretty bad.
I don’t think any amount of Proton patches submitted is going to bring that back.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
doublah@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
But Steam didn’t kill the idea of ownership of games? It never existed for digital distribution (or even physical with DRM), which existed before Steam.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Apparently a lot of games don’t have DRMs on Steam. The only thing missing is a badge indicating this.
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Yes, some of them can be launched directly from the exe without the steam client, or with some modifications to the game files.
Here’s a list of DRM free games: pcgamingwiki.com/…/List_of_DRM-free_games_on_Stea…
Also it’s kind of silly how people automatically blame Steam for this, even though Valve does not force you to use DRM to publish to Steam. It is the developers themselves that chose to add DRM or tie themselves to the Steam API so that the game can’t run without it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 hours ago
Steam didn’t do that. Even when you bought a physical disk you didn’t own the game.