Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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[–] llii@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The difference with Valve is that I still can use my PC hardware if Steam should get unavailable. I can't download games from other stores on the Playstation.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 weeks ago

Might be time to disable updates on your PS5 (if you can, I dunno, don't console) so you can install Linux and get those other stores (once hacks are available for your BIOS).

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[–] Phantaloons@piefed.zip -5 points 3 weeks ago

That's threading the needle a bit, but alright, as long as they're just anticonsumer enough for you, but no further.

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Is it? The sales are often so good, and games I bought 3 or 4 PC builds ago still install and run on my new one.

Also with streak families you can share games.

But I get it, this is more about the used market.

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

DRM can still ruin the user experience a lot.

For a simple example, I have bought Fallout 3 on Steam, but I cannot run that version on Steam on an old Windows 7 machine by default even though its specs are enough to run it, I need to do some workarounds to launch Steam in the first place, and at that point I'd rather download it from a pirate site.

How would my experience be on the same machine with GOG? I can download it directly from the site, or if I cannot connect to it because of browser incompatibility somehow, I can save a downloaded copy to my flash drive from another computer, then transfer its files and it works.

Some old games might not implement Steam DRM and therefore work with the file transfer, but it doesnt work all the time. On GOG it always works because no DRM.