Comment on Steam - new record for concurrent players online (37,185,128) on 19th May, 2026

• Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Steam is great and I love what they’re bringing.

  Still I’m trying to buy 50% of my games on GOG because no monopoly is good and Steam still has DRM’s and no real transparency about it.

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  • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Optional drm. Its the developers fault if there’s no transparency. Valve doesn’t enforce any drm on any game sold on steam. Its entirely and only the devs choice.

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    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yes I know but it would be nice to be able to know directly from Steam if a game is DRM Free or not.

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• richardwallass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Decent doesn’t mean it is not a monopoly.

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• GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  After killing the competition with exclusivity deals and shoehorning itself into physical copies as DRM.

  I know you weren’t born when that happened, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

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  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Steam / Valve doesn’t do exclusivity deals.

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    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Except they kinda did.

      They pay publishers to use Steam as DRM for physical releases.

      If you wanted to play the game on PC, you needed Steam.

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      • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Where do you get that Valve pays publishers to use Steam as DRM? And therefore forces them a kind of exclusivity deal? No, Valve does not do that.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Got a source on them paying publishers for that?

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      • doublah@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Publishers used Steam for physical releases because Valve takes no fee for CD keys, so it was cheaper for them.

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