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Steam, Steam sales, and constantly updated games were the fixes to piracy. If a game gets content updates every other month, re-downloading a pirated game, and
by com2kid 3y ago
Steam, Steam sales, and constantly updated games were the fixes to piracy.
If a game gets content updates every other month, re-downloading a pirated game, and possibly losing all progress, meh.
If a game is going to go on sale for $20 (or $10) after awhile, why bother pirating it, just wait.
And Steam is absurdly convenient. Built in voice chat, collectables, and forums, means playing games on Steam is better than playing pirated games.
- GeekyBear 3y ago> Steam, Steam sales, and constantly updated games were the fixes to piracy. Steam is a DRM platform.
- crooked-v 3y agoThere are plenty of games on Steam with no DRM at all, including Valve's own Half-Life and Portal games.
- danhor 3y agoWhile Steam itself certainly has DRM infrastructure, it's not required and easily bypassed. Valve allows other 3rd-party DRM solutions, but I'd argue that the built-in DRM is one of the less important aspects of steam.
- crooked-v 3y agoFor me, Steam Workshop is the killer feature for a bunch of games. It's hard to beat zero-effort auto-synced modding and zero-effort mod accessibility for tech-illiterate friends.