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Gabe Newell, founder of the largest video game DRM company. Find a way for anyone to download video games for free without risking malware or compromising onlin
by frollogaston 1y ago
Gabe Newell, founder of the largest video game DRM company. Find a way for anyone to download video games for free without risking malware or compromising online play, and see how many people still pay $60 for a new game on Steam.
- the_af 1y agoThat's a big if. More importantly, Gabe is fundamentally right. I'm subscribed to most available streaming services in my country, and when I still cannot find what I want due to obscure reasons (e.g. region locked, or Disney decided to not make it available anywhere for who knows which reason), you can be pretty sure I'll be sailing the seas of the corsair. It is a service problem.
- skeaker 1y agoPeople can and do download games for free all the time and Steam is still there. People pay for Spotify when music has been openly free since Napster was the zeitgeist.
- frollogaston 1y agoIt's not really possible for MP games, and it's increasingly hard and also dangerous to pirate an SP game. Idk who still does this. And Spotify is way cheaper than iTunes, which is cheaper than CDs. Neither of them created piracy, but they did have it as leverage.
- skeaker 1y ago>Idk who still does this Not my fault you're out of the loop.