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"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

That's nice. A wonder this survived so long. On PC it died 2 decades ago. Except for old games and some rare special ones like witcher3. Legally at least. I boycotted steam for years when it started because I knew this was the end of trading games or owning them. Then I gave up because resistance was futile and now I have like 100k in games I will never own and would loose if steam was gone.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You can still buy lots of DRM-free games today, most notably on GOG, but many offline games on Steam also ship without DRM and can be launched without running Steam.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    In another answer I named gog for that. But...it's mostly older games, so not really helpful if You also like new games or even AAA.

    But you also could "crack" most steam games so easily it's absurd. So, every installed (or archived) game would still run without. The steam-drm is trivial.

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