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Then don’t buy your games on Steam if you don’t like the way they do business, you’ve got other options, vote with your wallet and only buy DRM free games.

I wasn’t expecting they would take away the games I legally purchased.

You’re really okay with Steam being able to take away all the games you purchased whenever it feels like doing this? A rich asshole like Elon Musk could buy Steam and shut it down just to fuck with people, saying he just wanted the employees or some piece of tech. You wouldn’t complain at all if that happened?

You still wouldn’t be able to play those Windows 98 games if they were bought on Steam

That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

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Syntha@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

So all your stupid posturing in this thread was just to bait people into an argument with you?

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- btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nope. You are contributing nothing, so I’d rather you didn’t argue.
  
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  - Syntha@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well, it only took me one comment to contribute nothing, you needed like two dozen comments for that
    
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    btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Actually I learned there is a Steam DRM emulator. I also learned that I definitely do not want to give Steam any more money because they reserve the right to steal your entire game library at any time. So this has been very productive for me.
    
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Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Look at the EULA, you’re not buying the game, you’re buying the right to play it and that right can be taken from you at any time, that’s been the main criticism against the switch to digital platforms from the moment Steam started existing and if you had taken 30 seconds to think about it you would have realized it.

That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam.

Make up your fucking mind, do you or do you not buy games on Steam?

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- btaf45@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  Look at the EULA, you’re not buying the game, you’re buying the right to play it and that right can be taken from you at any time, Heck, just the fact that you can get banned from Steam and lose access to your library should have made that pretty fucking clear!
  
  WOW WTF??. That does it. I will definitely not give Steam another dime.
  
  That’s why I buy them on GOG and not Steam. Make up your fucking mind, do you or do you not buy games on Steam?
  
  I bought many games that originally played on Win 98 you were talking about on GOG and play them on Win 10.
  
  I stupidly bought Axis and Allies Online a week ago on Steam. Learned I cannot play it on Windows 7 after one week. Then learned I could have bought it on GOG instead without the ridiculous DRM.
  
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