sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoGamers push back: 71% say they’re not ready to let physical games die as PlayStation and Xbox move toward a digital-only future”www.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square75linkfedilinkarrow-up153arrow-down11
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minus-squareDestide@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months agoDRM is the issue not physical. No drm means I can just keep replicating my product when physical fails
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYeah that’s my problem with it as well. People keep going “but steam does the same thing” but with steam I actually have the install on my computer, a computer which valve does not control and they cannot take things off me after the fact.
minus-squareJohanno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYesnt. Steam can absolutely remote remove your library. They never did and probably won’t do it. But they could
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThey can take a game off sale but they can’t take something from me that I’ve already downloaded.
minus-squareJohanno@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoIn most European countries yes. They can’t legally. But they can technically.
minus-squareLwL@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months agoThey cannot if you back it up to a folder outside of the steam directory. Provided of course the game doesn’t use Steam’s DRM.
minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoHow can they do that? I’m curious
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minus-squarematthurtme@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoDamn dude, thanks for the insight
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DRM is the issue not physical. No drm means I can just keep replicating my product when physical fails
Yeah that’s my problem with it as well. People keep going “but steam does the same thing” but with steam I actually have the install on my computer, a computer which valve does not control and they cannot take things off me after the fact.
Yesnt. Steam can absolutely remote remove your library.
They never did and probably won’t do it. But they could
They can take a game off sale but they can’t take something from me that I’ve already downloaded.
In most European countries yes. They can’t legally. But they can technically.
They cannot if you back it up to a folder outside of the steam directory. Provided of course the game doesn’t use Steam’s DRM.
How can they do that? I’m curious
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Damn dude, thanks for the insight
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