Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 months agoThat’s kind of why they are successful though, right? They were the ones that figured out how to supply games digitally for a profit, which required a way to prevent people from sharing the product for free. This was previously done with CD keys, but the advent of the internet rendered that mostly ineffective.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I think publishers value the fact that steam is essentially a form of DRM, so we got fairly lucky all things considered. Imagine if steam didn’t exist and we had to deal with software like Uplay and Origin.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Imagine if securom was everywhere again.