Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    steam will go to shit soon as we lose gaben

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    • Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fingers crossed he passes the reigns to someone with the same vision.

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    • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Quite a bit of what they do gets into open source.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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

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    • DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would that be coorporate suicide for steam?

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      • Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.

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      • bent@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, but some private equity schmuks will get a pay day so it’s fine.

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      • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        since when has that stoped anything

        see Sears and Craftsman

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Steam will do a rug pull one day. You purchase a license to their games, you do not own them.

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    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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)

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      • DevoidWisdom@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you go about getting drm free copies, email them? I love this dev already.

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      • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That mindset allows them to keep doing it

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    • Aetherion@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you think will happen? Classic enshittification?

      Wanting some kind of subscription to still play?

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      • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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

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• chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My Internet-connected Linux computers are pretty fucking rad.

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