Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?

• Newsteinleo@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Culprit in what way? It’s the developers and publishers that put the DRM on the games, not Steam.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. Steam features its own DRM, ensuring games cannot be launched without it.

    2. Steam has enormous leverage in the gaming market and could at least influence the devs to make DRM transferable between the publishing spaces (but that might hurt Steam’s bottom line).

    Plenty of games release both on Steam and, say, GOG. GOG versions don’t feature DRM, Steam versions do, specifically so that players would be tied to Valve’s ecosystem.

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    • Newsteinleo@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You are not required by Steam to use their DRM, it’s a service they offer. Publishers make the choice to use the DRM.

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