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To me Steam is the antithesis of DRM, to be honest (I am quite a bit of a fanboi though) It does so much things for me. I no longer have to worry about CD's or
by emp_zealoth 10y ago
To me Steam is the antithesis of DRM, to be honest (I am quite a bit of a fanboi though)
It does so much things for me. I no longer have to worry about CD's or whatever. All my games are in one place, install pretty much as soon as I want (50mbit fiber), are always up to date, I never have to fiddle with goddamn keys - click install, wait a few minutes, click play and that's it! Some games have Steam Cloud, so my saves are there, my settings might be there too.
And don't start me on Steam Overlay! I've got a few hundred friends, clock (THIS IS SO RIDDICULOUSLY NICE TO HAVE), a web browser.
It does streaming. It does screenshots. It does remote desktop. Guides.
It takes my issues and solves them for me. Maybe that is some Stockholm Syndrome. It's been years since I had any issues with Steam-as-DRM (Or just Steam, really)
But fucking hell, look at uplay or origin or any other cancerware corporate trash that does nothing but fuck with you.
I don't really see Steam/Volvo locking down VR. It appears that they provide an API for other hardware to work. (At least thats what cursory googling says!)
- SquareWheel 10y agoKeep in mind that those value-added features (friends list, save syncing, etc) are all doable without the actual DRM component. In fact some games choose not to bundle SteamWorks DRM so their exes are not encrypted. GOG Galaxy[1] is an example of a client that is completely DRM-free, but still offers many of those features. I use Steam a lot and buy quite a lot of games from it, though I'd not consider it the antithesis of DRM. They do still use DRM - they just make it a better experience. [1] https://www.gog.com/galaxy https://www.gog.com/galaxy