▲ 181 ▼ Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN (www.ign.com) submitted 6 months ago by iamthetot@piefed.ca to c/games@lemmy.world 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) Unfortunately that doesn't help with multiplayer games that rely on steam permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) An extremely similar API exists in GOG, for better and for worse, because it functionally is the only DRM in GOG. And of course Epic offers the same thing, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) How many devs actually take advantage of it though? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago It happens all the time. Sometimes it's a disclaimer on the store page, or sometimes they just list "multiplayer", and I have to find out via forums if the game is actually DRM-free or if they're using the equivalent GOG multiplayer service. And the reason it's there is to entice those developers who rely on the equivalent Steam services, but I wish those API calls could somehow be co-opted into actual DRM-free multiplayer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child) An extremely similar API exists in GOG, for better and for worse, because it functionally is the only DRM in GOG. And of course Epic offers the same thing, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) How many devs actually take advantage of it though? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago It happens all the time. Sometimes it's a disclaimer on the store page, or sometimes they just list "multiplayer", and I have to find out via forums if the game is actually DRM-free or if they're using the equivalent GOG multiplayer service. And the reason it's there is to entice those developers who rely on the equivalent Steam services, but I wish those API calls could somehow be co-opted into actual DRM-free multiplayer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 child) How many devs actually take advantage of it though? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago It happens all the time. Sometimes it's a disclaimer on the store page, or sometimes they just list "multiplayer", and I have to find out via forums if the game is actually DRM-free or if they're using the equivalent GOG multiplayer service. And the reason it's there is to entice those developers who rely on the equivalent Steam services, but I wish those API calls could somehow be co-opted into actual DRM-free multiplayer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago It happens all the time. Sometimes it's a disclaimer on the store page, or sometimes they just list "multiplayer", and I have to find out via forums if the game is actually DRM-free or if they're using the equivalent GOG multiplayer service. And the reason it's there is to entice those developers who rely on the equivalent Steam services, but I wish those API calls could somehow be co-opted into actual DRM-free multiplayer. permalink fedilink source parent