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Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
steam will go to shit soon as we lose gaben

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- Attacker94@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Fingers crossed he passes the reigns to someone with the same vision.
  
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- mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Quite a bit of what they do gets into open source.
  
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- DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Would that be coorporate suicide for steam?
  
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  - bent@feddit.dk ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, but some private equity schmuks will get a pay day so it’s fine.
    
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  - Soggy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.
    
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- chunes@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    How do you go about getting drm free copies, email them? I love this dev already.
    
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    Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    When you buy one of their games on steam (In my case, Don’t Starve), they come with a “CD Key” included which you can plug into their website to download your DRM-free copy. Alternatively if you buy it from GOG you just have a DRM-free copy out the gate.
    
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  - sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That mindset allows them to keep doing it
    
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- Aetherion@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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