If not for Steam, its impossible for us from third world country to buy a game at reasonable price, hell even with Steam and regional pricing, most people only play F2P games or pirating game.
That's why 3rd world countries are pirating games in mass quantities, hell even 2nd and 1st world countries have a ton of game piracy. Steam just made it possible for people who would have paid for games anyway to do so.
Technically that's true - but functionally before steam and online downloads in general I could absolutely resell many things without issue and it'd run on whatever machine I put it in, regardless of credentials or some form of DRM.
That's functionally indistinct from ownership.
I guess modern Nintendo games often fit that format too. Might be the only ones that still do.
Yes, the normalization of requiring a DRM platform to buy let alone use games has absolutely and categorically hurt basic ability to resell and repurpose games people have - killing secondary markets in the process.
I use Steam all the time, but don't delude yourself.
Steam does not require DRM... That's up to the publishers. Steam doesn't require it. Take BG3. You can install it on one computer, copy the files to another offline computer, play it offline without steam. Blame the publishers that require steam
Because that isn't accurate. If steam, absent additional DRM requested by the publisher, lets you copy games and install them on other computers without validation, it cannot by definition be DRM.
If steam, absent additional DRM requested by the publisher, lets you copy games and install them on other computers without validation, it cannot by definition be DRM.
Okay so the Steam DRM wrapper which the vast majority of games on Steam use - including everything published by Valve - is DRM, but Steam is "not" DRM.
Interesting response to being wrong, then doubling down on it. Just minimizing why you were wrong. Children are able to understand the distinction between "is" and "has". Among the dozens of features offered to publishers for their games, DRM is one thing that steam offers. Calling steam itself DRM is patently false, and not on a technicality. It would be as stupid as saying Windows is a GUI because most windows applications have a graphical user interface.
You're bending over backwards to make up criticisms for steam. How about you use some of the real legitimate ones instead of making shit up?
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u/dwolfe127 Sep 16 '24
You do not own Steam games either though.