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Steam is still a walled garden that can arbitrarily take away games at any time they want. Everyone who sells via Steam (including Valve) can and do sometimes t
by averageRoyalty 3y ago
Steam is still a walled garden that can arbitrarily take away games at any time they want. Everyone who sells via Steam (including Valve) can and do sometimes turn off online services.
Your garden might be wider, but there's still walls.
- fluoridation 3y agoYou can still back the games up, if necessary on external drives. If they have DRM it can be cracked. None of this is is possible on consoles (or if it is I've never heard of it).
- smaudet 3y agoThere are efforts, yes, but you will be surprised just how hostile the major players are towards this (and how big brother they are). If you know any of this the illusion that Microsoft (or Nintendo/Sony) are anything other than unethical profit mongers quickly disappears.
- hbn 3y agoMany consoles have had their DRM cracked, some easier than others. I believe the Xbox 360 still requires soldering in a modchip, but the 3DS for example can be cracked easily and safely by loading some files onto an SD card and following a few steps.
- fluoridation 3y agoAs time goes on and console hardware becomes increasingly integrated, it'll become harder and harder to do hardware bypasses. As for the 3DS, that was pure luck caused by shitty system design, that allowed application bugs to cause ACE. There's no comparison with a platform that the user has direct and complete control over.