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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] cybermass@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

The reason they hold most of the market share is not because of bad business practices it's because the opposite. People use their service cause it's the best.

The gov only considers a large business a monopoly if it's doing anti competitive practices to maintain or grow it's market share. That description in no way fits steam or valve.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

The reason they hold most of the market share is not because of bad business practices it's because the opposite. People use their service cause it's the best.

I have physical copies of PC games that require a Steam Account.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which is why you don't have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

A Steam key Valve didn't get a cut from, btw.

[-] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

So all those files on the disc I had to install were for something else then?

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game using Steam, and not an actual game you own.