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

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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GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They did.

They don’t need to anymore because they killed the market of physical discs for PC games.

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I ask again: Where did you get that idea from? Any source other than “trust me bro” statement? Valve did not, unless you can proof your extraordinary claim with an extraordinary source.
  
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  - GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    My own physical copy of Hitman Absolution. And the Steam code required to play a game with two physical discs.
    
    Because Steam was used as DRM.
    
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    thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    that does not proof that Steam pays developers to use Steam as a DRM,
    
    that is a decision made by the developers or publisher
    
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