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It was the beginning of the end of pure, complete offline software ownership. They normalized it so thoroughly that a whole younger generation no longer really

• esotericimpl 3y ago
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• Night_Thastus 3y ago
  That would have happened regardless because of companies like Adobe. There are way too many non-game-related services that were going to become online-only or even also subscription-only very quickly as the internet improved. And honestly...what does it matter? I get the philosophical argument, but in all practicality you're playing the same games either way. Steam (at least in my experience) has never prevented me from playing something I wanted to.
• m463 3y ago
  look at gog - though not as many titles, games purchased there run offline without drm.