▲ 210 ▼ 72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study (www.gamesindustry.biz) submitted 1 year ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/steam@lemmy.ml 237 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yeah I gotta say that I am a steam fanboy, but GOG is making me pause. After 20 years of being on steam (oh my god it's been that long) I am finding myself preferring GOG. No DRM is pretty sick. They want to fight back against steam the winner isn't more DRM, it's using valve's own weapon against them, and using less DRM. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Steam's for-profit too. The term you're looking for that describes CDPR but not Valve is "publicly traded" or simply "has shareholders". permalink fedilink source parent [–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago I will always choose GOG over Steam if given the choice, but too many developers still think it’s okay to take your money without giving you true ownership of your purchase. Steam allows that exploitation and GOG does not. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 1 year ago (2 children) Yeah I gotta say that I am a steam fanboy, but GOG is making me pause. After 20 years of being on steam (oh my god it's been that long) I am finding myself preferring GOG. No DRM is pretty sick. They want to fight back against steam the winner isn't more DRM, it's using valve's own weapon against them, and using less DRM. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Steam's for-profit too. The term you're looking for that describes CDPR but not Valve is "publicly traded" or simply "has shareholders". permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Steam's for-profit too. The term you're looking for that describes CDPR but not Valve is "publicly traded" or simply "has shareholders". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago Steam's for-profit too. The term you're looking for that describes CDPR but not Valve is "publicly traded" or simply "has shareholders". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago I will always choose GOG over Steam if given the choice, but too many developers still think it’s okay to take your money without giving you true ownership of your purchase. Steam allows that exploitation and GOG does not. permalink fedilink source parent