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Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. By that logic, GoG should have taken over. I think Gabe's original assessment is mostly correct - making th
by junon 3y ago
Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. By that logic, GoG should have taken over.
I think Gabe's original assessment is mostly correct - making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Ehhhh I don't think DRM is why Steam is succeeding. I never claimed that DRM was the only reason. >making things easily obtainable is more important than making them free No, it's because of competition. The PC being so open and not locked down to a single entity who can engage in rent-seeking like the console vendors, means not just piracy but an unlimited ways and sources you can get media on the device which means competition, which drives down prices.
- robertlagrant 3y agoRent-seeking seems a silly term here. If you just mean "charging a fortune" then there are other consoles to buy. And consoles are luxury goods, so if they get too expensive people just won't buy them in the first place.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI beg to differ. Piracy and mod-chips on earlier consoles was rampant (in my country). Anyone I knew with a PS2 had it 'chipped' and only had pirated games because the price of the console (which was also a DVD player) was more easily digestible than the price of original games which came at huge mark-ups to compensate for the console HW which were sold at a loss in the eerier stages.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI don't understand; how is selling a console at a loss "rent-seeking"?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI never said that nor was that my point. You're connecting unrelated dots from my arguments.
- robertlagrant 3y agoI'm trying to make what you're saying make sense. I said I don't think rent-seeking is a good term for this. You begged to differ.
- wink 3y agoJust little QoL things can make or break it. Steam: Is kinda reasonable with keeping me logged in ON MY OWN DAMN HARDWARE. Ubisoft Connect: Hi, it's you. You seem to have a different IP after your ISP's 24h disconnect. PLEASE LOG IN to play this single player game. But then you have companies like Square Enix where their website process to buy a game was so convoluted that people went to Steam just because it was 5 clicks and not 50.