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[–] PatrickYaa@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

At least, Steam has some pretty good followers should they enshittify. Gog, humblebundle and epic are all poised to take over should steam shit the bed.

They aren't quite there yet, but at least you don't need a subscription for any of them and can just add them to a unifying launcher like heroic etc.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

I think a bronze lining to WW3 or a 2nd American Civil War, is that DRM-free and telemetry-free media would become very popular. Troops need their entertainment without comms, and civvies might have constant internet shortages. Thus, the markets would have to adapt to that reality.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I get stuff on Gog sometimes. They do some things right (no need for a client, no DRM stance, good compatibility support, chasing down lost rights for old games).

But unfortunately they can never get more than scraps from the big publishers because those will never agree to release their newer games without DRM.

And let's be clear, I wouldn't want them to go back on this, but that will make it hard for them to compete.

Interestingly, at the beginning everything on Humble was offering DRM-free options too. And then after a while they gave us some bullshit about their policy not being "DRM-free" but "DRM-agnostic", which means, publisher can choose whether to use no DRM, or DRMs. Such a strong policy, thank you Humble.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

epic

Lol at including the pre-enshittified store

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Humble Bundle already enshittified, and Epic was evil to begin with.