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Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, "gamers" did acknowledge the drm related issues... and insist that Steam is also drm-free and it is only the games that use drm (including steam-drm...) that aren't.

Which... look, I like gog a lot and do make it a point to buy games there when feasible. But it is hard to get TOO upset with people changing the definition of DRM when cdp already did that for gog (it is basically just GOO with less stardock shitheads).

Which gets back to the bigger issue of people needing to understand what they are and aren't "giving up" for a given DRM model. But that would involve people thinking critically and... we don't do that anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I keep reminding people that we "gamers" used to be super mad at Steam. There were boycotts. Every warez group on the planet dropped what they were doing to jailbreak Half Life 2 out of sheer spite.

I don't worship GOG any more than I do Steam, but I do want a solid competitor keeping Valve in check and I would love it if that competitor was also DRM-free because I like owning stuff.

The "most Steam games are DRM-free" line is baffling, though. Especially since Valve itself seems to disagree. I mean, they'll tell you to add more DRM on top and use their centralized online services to make backups and pirated copies worse because it's weak DRM... but it's DRM both stand-alone and as part of the GaaS model they're pushing. They even added an entire warning box to remind you that they aren't selling you anything and they can take all your stuff away whenever and people somehow presented that as a welcome sign of honestly, which was some of the most surreal PR I have seen in my life.