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tidderuuf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What in the tech world isn’t broken? Besides older consoles and computers disconnected from the internet.
My GOG games aren’t, my Steam library’s still chugging along after 11 years, my Linux installs haven’t failed or started spying on me and my offline, modular 3d printer still works.
It’s all about understanding what you’re buying and what’s the incentives for those on the other end. We shouldn’t have to think about that all the time, but on the bright side there are cool things happening outside of enshittification by publicly traded corpos.
Steam will do a rug pull one day. You purchase a license to their games, you do not own them.
What do you think will happen? Classic enshittification?
Wanting some kind of subscription to still play?
I’d assume something along those lines but who knows how the enshittification will continue to develop. Having crap TOS always leads to companies taking advantage of it eventually to make more money
Helps that steam’s DRM is piss-easy to crack, and good indie devs give you DRM-free redeemable copies if you show a proof of purchase (Klei my beloved)
How do you go about getting drm free copies, email them? I love this dev already.
That mindset allows them to keep doing it
steam will go to shit soon as we lose gaben
Would that be coorporate suicide for steam?
since when has that stoped anything
see Sears and Craftsman
Yes, but some private equity schmuks will get a pay day so it’s fine.
Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.
Fingers crossed he passes the reigns to someone with the same vision.
Quite a bit of what they do gets into open source.
This. I’ve been developing my exit strategy for years and am reluctant to buy too many games on steam. It’s going to hit most people like a freight train
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.