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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Who'd have thought not actually owning the games you purchase was a bad idea?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I already have enough games to last a lifetime, stored to my storage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah hate to say it but by the time this golden age ends with valve I'll prob either not be gaming as much anyway or to your point have enough that I won't really care about the newer games.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This is silly. Valve is already a profit driven company. You don't see the walled garden? The DRM? Valve supports proton because it's in their monetary interest to do so.

[–] brb 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How is it walled garden when you can add any non-steam game to your library?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Since it's not publicly owned it doesn't have to focus on quarterly profits.

If it gets sold to Microsoft they're probably going to start stripping it down to please investors and get rid banking on how most people will be too lazy to leave it. We've seen the same thing happen with reddit and twitter. I'm pretty sure enshittification is inevitable.

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