Why do I play all these games? Because it’s important that they’re played.
Because every game is a story, a world, a moment in time crafted by someone who cared enough to create it.
Because each one teaches me something new—about design, about culture, about myself.
Because in a sea of pixels, there’s magic waiting to be found.
And because, honestly? Sometimes I just want to escape, explore, and lose myself in different worlds.
So yeah. I own thousands of games, and I’ll keep playing them.
oji@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The funny thing is, you don’t own them.
atomicpoet@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Say what you will, every game I’ve bought—I can still play. And I’ve been buying Steam games for over a decade.
Meanwhile, none of my GameCube discs work on my Switch.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 days ago
You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
You can still play it but increasingly games are becoming very different from what you bought.
I’ve started noticing a disturbing trend. More and more games that are older being sold at steep discounts or “free to play” and simultaneously jampacked with invasive telemetry and/or ads/microtransactions. And since Steam won’t let you play older versions, those games are effectively dead.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
But the vast majority can be played without steam. Mostly by force coughcough but still. I know, still no legal ownership.