Comment on #StopPayingGames

the16bitgamer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ???

  Steam sells you a license. You don’t own the game. You own a license to access that game from Steam.

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  • yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, yet they do respect that licence and customers… so far, we trust them mostly.

    Once day, Steam may be gone from market, replace by another service, who knows, and our libraries be gone by turning servers down - there is a possibility. But I struggle to imagine Steam would delet a game from my purchases without refunds and without any really serious reason, like few others do.

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    • TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Didn’t they have a system that makes all games DRM free if something like that happenned?

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  • sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s how all software, except Free Software, works. Most media as well (except copyleft).

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  • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The game is downloaded and installed on your machine.

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    • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It also is from the other vendors, other wise you could not play offline games aside from all games being very slow probs. They have DRM, you cannot play most games without a launcher (there are some games, most of my steam library is mostly DRM free but maybe cuz they were indie games) unless you crack it.

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    • grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      And requires authentication via Steam to launch. No steam, no game.

      At least not unless third parties come up with a workaround.

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      • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There are many DRM free games on Steam that don’t require the Steam client to run once downloaded

        www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

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  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

    Watch, learn.

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