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[-] brsrklf@jlai.lu 10 points 2 weeks ago

I think they'd already lost their way a long while before that.

They started as indies grouping together to get visibility, at a time when Steam still curated every game and accepted maybe 4 games a month (yeah, hard to imagine today. It's still hard to be noticed, but for the opposite reason). Back then they distributed only DRM-free games too, with eventually a Steam key option.

At some point they opened their own store and started including big publisher games, and really became just another store, and mostly a key store too. They spew some bullshit about not being specifically a DRM-free store, but really "DRM-agnostic". "We don't restrict publishers' choice of DRM, they can be DRM-free if they want!"

And I'm like, dude, it's not a stance, Steam technically doesn't either. You may need the client to install but plenty of games don't run on any DRM, not even Steamworks.

this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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