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Indie developer behind 'Overwhelmingly Positive' rated shipbuilder argues that Steam's "free advertising" is worth the 30% cut (www.gamesradar.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As great a take as that is who will host the online service? Piracy can get you far but not always all the way. We need an open source game hosting option. But even that is not all. We need one that has the visibility of steam and the UI to boot. There a a couple of problems that legitimately need solving before we can just say piracy is the answer.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I've personally stopped buying games that can't survive offline. If I need to pirate my collection back in a doomsday scenario, all of those games will still work.