Not to mention that Steamworks DRM is practically non-existent anyways.
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ono@lemmy.ca 5 months agosomehow they managed to invent like 90% of all “evil” MTX and DRM in the process
Having worked with DRM systems since long before Valve existed, I’m reasonably certain this is just plain false.
Chailles@lemmy.world 5 months ago
MudMan@kbin.social 5 months ago
Blending the storefront with a DRM solution? No, that was them.
That's their entire call to fame. They first turned their auto-patcher into a DRM service, then they enforced authorization of physical copies through it and eventually it became the storefront bundled with the other two pieces. If somebody did it before them I hadn't heard of it, but I'll happily take proof that I was wrong.
None of the pieces were new, SecuROM and others had been around for years, a few publishers had download and patch managers and I don't remember who did physical auth first, but somebody must have. But bundling the three? That was Steam.
Transtronaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Yeah, and I don’t remember Half-life being the game that introduced the world to horse armor.
Radicaldog@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The used is being hyperbolic, but is referring to their substantial role in popularising loot boxes, as well as the marketplace that has spawned a real gambling industry around it. Kids gamble on 3rd party sites and Valve does very little to interfere.