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The comparison was that the ability to enforce always online exists in steam, just like it will here. Neither will mandate it.
The ability to do this isn’t only being added now, it’s just that meta have made an api for it that developers can use if they want instead of writing their own.
Honestly I'm not as optimistic as you are. Official API gives implicit permission for DRM. Right now if an APP did this it would be review bombed and suffer backslash. With official API it'll slowly normalizes DRM and suddenly everything requires online.
Quest is getting more closed with every release - remember when Facebook login was not required? The whole dev ecosystem is getting more complex with every update. This seems like an up-coming trend especially now that Quests main competition will be an extremely closed ecosystem of Apple. This will give Quest permision to basically lock down more.
My bet is that a year in most of the apps will have this DRM though I'd love to be proven wrong. I love my Quest 2 and only use it to draw/sculpt when I travel and that would basically kill the device for me so I might be a bit over protective of my hobby here but it really sucks when you buy a thing and somebody else tells you how to use it.
Only the nerds care. There is DRM on every damn platform or there except gog and nobody cares because it works fine and they aren't the users who just want to steal.
You hear about a shitty DRM implementation like once a year. This is all just noise from pirates.
This is such a "why does privacy matter when I have nothing to hide" argument.
God forbid my software check that it's not stolen!
Hey did you steal that? Did you steal that? Is that stolen? No don't block my line of sight I need to see if you stole that. Did you steal that? Did you steal that?
What a consumer experience.
And yet for most products, nobody notices nor cares.
Whatever you say.
"Noise from pirates" is bullshit. Pirates generally tend to have a better experience with their media than legal users.
Lolol 👌 Plex is definitely more consistent then Netflix 🙄
They're plenty of people who complain about it when it doesn't work, but they don't know why it doesn't work, they're just annoyed it doesn't.