Comment on GameVault - The Identity Update

Lemmchen@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• haroldfinch@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hadn’t heard of a “self hostable Steam-like platform” before; after reading the above post I became very excited… until I read it doesn’t support Linux.

  Thank you for sharing this Linux alternative! Configuring it for my homelab environment right now.

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  • Guidy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t understand the need for any such clients in the first place. Steam is used to sell you games, and install/manage/run them for you.

    But unless you’re a child you shouldn’t actually need any of that. I’m perfectly capable of going to Factorio’s web site, buying it, downloading it, and running it. On any platform it supports.

    That’s not a critique of this software project, I bet it’s cool. I just don’t need a middleman between me and video games. It’s the store that wants to sell me more and more and more or the publisher who wants that.

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    • TheSambassador@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you have a lot of DRM free games and want to have your own backup copies and be able to easily share them with your household, this does that. It isn’t for hosting games you buy through Steam or other DRM-protected platforms. It’s for giving you an interface to easily search and download your own library of games that you could get from a bunch of different sources, so you don’t have to go look up your credentials that you used to buy the game to re download it.

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