• Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Steam is a proprietary app store shipping DRM and proprietary software. I can’t say I’m eager to use it

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      2 months ago

      If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.

      They don’t force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don’t lock down their hardware.

      What I’m trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it’s much better than any big tech alternative.

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      2 months ago

      devs can ship games on steam without drm, it’s not valve that mandates it. ksp doesn’t have drm for example

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      2 months ago

      Yes. But that’s still better than most other big gaming companies.

      We should take from Valve what we can before they start invading the OS. Also, it’s DRM, so we either start to get our own game storage/acquiring mechanism or we just accept we can lose access to our games at any time of Valve’s choosing.