Not purchase, rent.
My use of the PlayStation platform had dropped significantly and moved to PC, and now Steam Deck as wrll.
And now I’ll just cease entirely.
They really love shooting themselves in the foot here.
And I suppose they will start trying to sue Steam when they fall.
EDIT: To be clear, the Deck can run GOG games with Lutris, and with PC I use a mix of launchers, not just Steam. My intent was to point out that many publishers seem to like going after Steam after they shoot themselves in the foot and lose users.
GOG for full drmless games, and if you are interested in self hosting them there are tools that let you do that too
Agreed.
Steam is certainly more consumer-friendly than most other big game stores, but you don’t actually own your Steam games, either. I second the other comment recommending GOG (I do admit that I’m generally too lazy to do the extra work to run GOG games on Linux that don’t do it out of the box, so I still buy games on Steam most of the time).
Agreed, just updated my comment for clarification here. But I’ll add that I still own any game I’ve bought on Steam that was pulled from the store. They tend to be on the better side here.
That said, DRM free for the win.
Look at the work order. You paid $70 for a license, not an asset. That’s how Sony keeps repair rights on their side.
never buy anything from them and they won’t have to repair it. problem solved.
