I love my Steam Deck and Proton, but it pisses me off how many Steam games are spyware / DRMware and won’t start without internet on this PORTABLE console, and especially that Valve allows this kind of toxic shit.

So, my Steam Deck stays blocked from the internet in my firewall and I either buy from GOG when available, or there’s this girl on the internet who shares a huge library of games that require no internet connection.

Also, Gabe can STFU about piracy being a service problem until Steam bans DRM and spyware.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 27 minutes ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

me: steam is terrible; it's just drm with a nice bow on top

steam: steam visual novel fest starts now

me: i love steam stuffs more items on my wishlist

(for real tho itch.io and gog are much better use them - and download the actual offline installers from gog don't use galaxy)

[–] NoU@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 minutes ago

Yup pretty much it.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 2 points 50 minutes ago

Accurate and warranted.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's crazy how it's absolutly impossible to criticize steam without getting bashed on by so-called gamblers. The amount of free balls sucking Steam gets is just ridiculous. They have sub 100 employees , take 30% of every god damn games sold on the platform and you dont own you games. Yeah it's a cool platform, but in the end it's just another nasty capitalist business.

[–] damdy@lemm.ee 11 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

As a Linux gamer, steam has done so much to make it incredibly easy. They didn't have to make proton, but they did and it's great.

The few games they've made have pretty much all been incredible.

The family sharing means my wife has access to my whole account on her steam deck.

Sure, they take a big cut of sales, I've heard not a great place to work, and probably some other reasons to not like them. But the good far outweighs the cons. It's hard to hate them compared to other huge companies.

[–] RushJet1@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Well I mean, proton exists pretty much solely because of the steam deck. I will agree that it's been really nice switching to Linux as a result of proton's existence but they didn't just magically do it out of the goodness of their own heart either. It's basically the nicest version of a monopolistic gaming environment that doesn't really allow you to actually own anything that you buy.

It's kind of funny to watch the news with them; they're like two different companies struggling to coexist. One is just as greedy and evil as every other corporation and the other one fights for the consumer, so you end up with a news story one day saying that they're stifling competition by forcing price cuts on only their platform, but then they also are banning all games that force players to watch advertisements. Make make up your mind Steam 😂

[–] owl@infosec.pub -1 points 24 minutes ago

I still don't understand why the company is so highly regarded. They enable underage gambling. Life must be easy for a company. You just have to be a little bit better than the others and you are regarded as a hero.

[–] kane@femboys.biz 14 points 3 hours ago

Gaben is pretty chill, ngl

[–] Puschel_das_Eichhorn@lemm.ee 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I never gamed, so...

Fuck gambling
Fuck walled gardens
Fuck billionaires (nobody needs that much dough)
Fuck Valve/Steam (it's easy for me to say)

[–] whats_all_this_then@programming.dev 32 points 5 hours ago

Steam isn't perfect and I sure as shit won't be the one defending a corporation, and this isn't a good excuse at ALL, but if you've never gamed you wouldn't believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).

[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Steam ils not cool. Steam is a monopoly position. This egemony need to end. We need many actors not just one.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Both things are currently true, they are a monopoly which is not good, but they are also acting nicely for the most part and not fucking people over despite their position

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

they are a monopoly

They are not, they're just a really good service so people use them more than the others

Epic, GOG, Itch, etc. still exist and are widely used

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Yea, the same way youtube isn't a monopoly... Except for all practical purposes it is.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)

Except for all practical purposes it is.

Except it's not, because you can go to multiple other sources

More than YouTube, even, and even YouTube isn't a full monopoly, though it's a lot closer than Steam is

Monopolies aren't just "big companies' you know

[–] Saryn@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

You're right - monopolies aren't just big companies. But a lack of monopoly is also not simply having access to alternatives. You can have all kinds of alternative services - that notion alone does not disprove the claim that Steam is a monopoly.

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