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It's stuff like this that makes me not even think about pirating games. Imagine a company that literally just improves features and makes it easier for me and my family to enjoy the media they sell. Why the fuck wouldn't I buy from their store?
Why streaming services don't understand this, I'll never know. Seems like the games industry is riding purely on Steam's usability while the film/TV industry is speedrunning enshittification.
Why the fuck wouldn't I buy from their store?
bc it's functionally always-on DRM? i mean feel free to spend money how you will but there are tons of good reasons to avoid steam
Not necessarily. There are games on Steam that don't have DRM.
i'm away from my pc for the week but does steam not require you have it running for basically every game? even if it's a switch devs can flip it still falls under the same category imo but i am curious and don't know the full facts here
It depends on whether the game wants that or not; it must explicitly opt-in to that. If it wasn't Steam offering their extremely nonintrusive DRM, those games would likely use more intrusive DRM systems instead such as their own launchers or worse.
It also somehow doesn't feel right to call it "DRM" since it has none of the downsides of "traditional" DRM systems: It works offline, it doesn't cause performance issues and doesn't get in your way (at least it never even once got in mine).I'd much rather launch the games through Steam anyways though. Do you manually open the games' locations and then open their executables or what? A nice GUI with favourites, friends and a big "play" button is just a lot better IMHO.
i see. as i said, i'd still consider it drm even in a case like yours where it never gives you trouble. i find performance suffers mostly in edge cases for me but it's often enough that i prefer to simply take steam out of the equation entirely.
Do you manually open the games' locations and then open their executables or what?
i just keep a folder with shortcuts to the games i play on the desktop tbh, i am a bit of a slob that way. anyway this is all very no-stakes so i'm not trying to convince anyone of anything here. if you like something and it works for you then you should use it! i will continue to pirate because that's what works best for me.
I have a large library of games I've never played on stream. a couple months back I wanted to play a game I had installed a while ago and guess what, forced always online. not from steam, but from the shitty team behind doom (don't remember which version it was), which just happened to be at the time I had a multi hour internet outage.
afterwards I figured out I had to explicitly block some network traffic to stop it from trying to force me to sign up for an account with the developer.while steam certainly has DRM options, they are configurable by developers and afaik can't enforce an always online requirement with just steam, only though custom logic in the game or third party DRM. developers are also free to not use steam DRM.
DRM, as usual, harms the legitimate buyers.
that being said, steam still does bring a lot of value, such as their hardware developments, their work on better Linux gaming support, the update distribution through a trusted source, and various others.
It doesn't make games free, so I'll continue to think about pirating games.
Every company os speedrunning enshittification except steam. Like. Look at the other game launchers. They are all shit.
If a family member gets banned for cheating while playing your copy of a game, you (the game owner) will also be banned in that game. Other family members are not impacted.
Oh man that's gonna cause so much drama lmao
Hmmm, that's a lot to go over in there. I have family sharing setup with, let's say, my found family. There are a lot of improvements listed, but also many things I'm worried about.
The one year period of waiting after leaving one seems excessive. I hope they have good separation of the logical family and the physical pc's, It's really annoying to resetup stuff with my partner every time one of us installs a different linux distro.
I understand why they're doing the ban sharing, but it's still funny.
The one year period of waiting after leaving one seems excessive.
It's slightly better than that for the person who leaves. It's a one year period starting the moment they joined the previous one. So if you've been part of a family for 1+ years you can join/create a new one right away.
The slot you occupied however does stay locked for an additional year.
I also have my current setup with found family and as I live close to a country border I cannot switch over properly as I have members on both sides of the border. I understand their intent is "same household", so I do understand why this is the case, still sucks for me though.
I hope they have good separation of the logical family and the physical pc’s, It’s really annoying to resetup stuff with my partner every time one of us installs a different linux distro.
After toying around in the beta, this seems to not be an issue anymore as they seem to actually go off accounts now and not hardware anymore. It was quite frustrating in the old system though.
Ffs.....I mean, w.e, I'm sure it's fine. Just I literally only set up my brother to family share my library last month.....
