SpaghettiMaster comments on Can anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossible

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[–] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

At least you know they can never enshitify what you have already bought and downloaded.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

Isn't this the same with steam?

Devs have an option to put DRM on. If the game doesn't have DRM on steam, you van do the same thing, if it has DRM, then it isn't available on GoG anyway.

At least that is how I understood it.

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[–] SpaghettiMaster@feddit.uk 1 point 1 week ago

Sometimes, and it isn't as transparent as GOG.

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