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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Sunshine@piefed.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

they don't push steam DRM...devs choose whether they want it or not

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[+] Flagstaff@programming.dev -7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I know devs can choose; I didn't say "force," after all. But the fact that so very few games are DRM-free bugs me...

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[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That not steams fault so why bring it up?

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[+] Flagstaff@programming.dev -6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

They encourage it, I'm sure.

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[–] Smaile@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

So a hunch is all you got....

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