• Tixo@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I have games on steam that are not sold anymore and are supported by valve, I can download them, I can discuss with people about thrm, they work flawlessly, but they are not sold anymore.

    I can also share ALL of my games with a lot of people as in friends and family, forever!

    Not the same.

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        3 hours ago

        I have this mentality too so it’s really weird for me to see so many people just blindly praise Valve. Corporations have great track records until they don’t. Don’t get too comfortable.

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        9 hours ago

        valve (actually the devs) does not put DRM restrictions into most games. most of them don’t work without steam because the developer coded it with the expectation that steam will always be there, and that can be fixed with the goldberg steam emulator.

        most games you can just download from ypur library, prepare it for goldberg, and it will work without steam

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        9 hours ago

        Of course, and as long as they exist. They are after all a digital platform, nothing that can be done about that. Still.

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      10 hours ago

      Not the same

      Exactly right, it’s not. You’re talking about delisted games, not removed games.