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Yes, but price is definitely a part of the service. This one is easy for me: Disney jacks prices by 80%, people decide not to pay for it.

al_borland 3y ago
Price is part of it, and paying customers should never have a worse experience than those getting something for free. With DRM, activation severs that can be shut down, exclusivity deals, and fragmentation of marketplaces… paying customers often get a worse experience.
- nicolaslem 3y ago
  I wish Valve used their weight to cut down on the DRM, online activation and micro-transaction bullshit.
  - sensanaty 3y ago
    Steam's DRM is optional (edit: by this I mean it's a checkbox that the devs can tick if they want Steam DRM for their game) and extremely lightweight to be fair, and it's been cracked for 2 decades at this point as well. MTX and Always-Online BS is also down to the individual games, nothing Steam can do about it realistically.
  - me_me_me 3y ago
    Not many mention it, but it was valve who invented loot boxes and keys (TF2) and season passes (DotA2) they have item market place. They had original steam drm that people railed against at the begining. Valve and Gabe are not the second coming people make them to be. They are the least shitty maybe, but man... the bar is really low at this stage.
  - greycol 3y ago
    I'd just like a DRM filter on steam. You can filter out free to play and DLC so they never appear on the store page. It would be great if you could also filter out DRM (even by type if they're feeling motivated). Then i'd bet if they gave the publisher statistics on how many people never see their game because it contains denuvo or a 3rd party launcher you'd see meanigful change, and if not then at least the store is nicer for the steam customers who care about it.
Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago
This is nitpicking, but: Disney plus doesn't allow casting to my pc to my tv with desktop mirroring. This is DRM crap. I was using that to watch the same movie my children were watching while I was doing some work and I couldn't.

al_borland 3y ago

Price is part of it, and paying customers should never have a worse experience than those getting something for free. With DRM, activation severs that can be shut down, exclusivity deals, and fragmentation of marketplaces… paying customers often get a worse experience.

nicolaslem 3y ago
I wish Valve used their weight to cut down on the DRM, online activation and micro-transaction bullshit.
- sensanaty 3y ago
  Steam's DRM is optional (edit: by this I mean it's a checkbox that the devs can tick if they want Steam DRM for their game) and extremely lightweight to be fair, and it's been cracked for 2 decades at this point as well. MTX and Always-Online BS is also down to the individual games, nothing Steam can do about it realistically.
- me_me_me 3y ago
  Not many mention it, but it was valve who invented loot boxes and keys (TF2) and season passes (DotA2) they have item market place. They had original steam drm that people railed against at the begining. Valve and Gabe are not the second coming people make them to be. They are the least shitty maybe, but man... the bar is really low at this stage.
- greycol 3y ago
  I'd just like a DRM filter on steam. You can filter out free to play and DLC so they never appear on the store page. It would be great if you could also filter out DRM (even by type if they're feeling motivated). Then i'd bet if they gave the publisher statistics on how many people never see their game because it contains denuvo or a 3rd party launcher you'd see meanigful change, and if not then at least the store is nicer for the steam customers who care about it.

Fire-Dragon-DoL 3y ago

This is nitpicking, but: Disney plus doesn't allow casting to my pc to my tv with desktop mirroring. This is DRM crap. I was using that to watch the same movie my children were watching while I was doing some work and I couldn't.