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Steam kinda killed physical PC games 20 years ago.

And the Steam zealots will come and say, “Yeah, but but you can still buy games on other storefronts! So it’s not like this Sony thing at all!” OK, sure.

But Steam still helped kill physical games on PC.

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samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
But since PS is an open platform, you can preserve your digital games for it. Not always legally, but buying isn’t owning anyway.

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- garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah, no game bought on Steam is owned, just licensed. It sucks. Have to go to other places to actually own it digitally.
  
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Agent_Karyo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Why do you need physical release on PC?

You need a DRM free installer (preferably with patches built-in) not physical.

Mind you, I am no Valve fan, they lean towards typical American oligarchical behaviour and they made a massive contribution to developing loot boxes. But in comparison to all other large American tech companies, they are not aggressively terrible, still nowhere near “great” though.

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