ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Gaming@beehaw.org · 14 days agoThe PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirementwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1210arrow-down10cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1210arrow-down1external-linkThe PlayStation Network outage proves PC gamers were right to resist its mandatory sign-in requirementwww.pcgamer.comByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Gaming@beehaw.org · 14 days agomessage-square24fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squareJokeDeity@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 days agoI can’t fathom how anyone has an issue with Steam, they’re one of the only straight shooters in the game.
minus-squareDon_alForno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 days agoUntil the day after Gabe kicks the bucket.
minus-squaresic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoRead their EULA, you license your “purchase”. You don’t own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.
minus-squareDiabolicalBird@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days agoThe vast majority of digital purchases are licenses, this isn’t something new or unique to Steam. Digital purchases where you actually own the product are more the exception than the rule.
minus-squaresic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThen let’s support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won’t change until the consumer tells them what’s important
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoEven when you were buying games on physical media, you didn’t own the software itself. You just owned a disc with the software on it.
I can’t fathom how anyone has an issue with Steam, they’re one of the only straight shooters in the game.
Until the day after Gabe kicks the bucket.
Read their EULA, you license your “purchase”. You don’t own your games. Steam also injects their own DRM onto the vast majority of games.
The vast majority of digital purchases are licenses, this isn’t something new or unique to Steam. Digital purchases where you actually own the product are more the exception than the rule.
Then let’s support the good companies to make it the rule and not exception. The market won’t change until the consumer tells them what’s important
Even when you were buying games on physical media, you didn’t own the software itself. You just owned a disc with the software on it.