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>> Valve respects its customers. That's the same Valve that doesn't let me play the games I paid it for unless they are running on its platform? That's how it
by YeGoblynQueenne 1y ago
>> Valve respects its customers.
That's the same Valve that doesn't let me play the games I paid it for unless they are running on its platform? That's how it "respects" me?
- ozten 1y agoName a game distribution platform that doesn't do this. It will be a toy example like a zip file purchased off of itch.io or something.
- fph 1y agoHumble Bundle
- ozten 1y agoThe most common activation keys in a bundle are ... Steam keys.
- iN7h33nD 1y agohttps://www.gog.com/ https://www.gog.com/ Is the largest one
- monkeywork 1y agoGOG is hardly a toy and is the platform I look to purchase tons of games on instead of Steam (which I really like) and definitely over Epic (which I've never even installed)
- ozten 1y agoRight. I have to be signed in to GOG to play Cyberpunk. That violates the spirit of the original commenter
- ehnto 1y agoDo you? I was pretty sure the Cyberpunk launcher has a "don't use account" button.
- doikor 1y agoYou can play Cyberpunk downloaded from GOG without launching Galaxy. Basically just go the the folder and run bin\x64\Cyberpunk2077.exe The "Launch Cyberpunk" shortcut in the folder starts Galaxy and then runs the game from there.
- hannasanarion 1y agoThe same is true for Steam games.
- doikor 1y agoOnly drm free steam games. The ones with the steam drm require steam client to be running to launch (steam itself can be in offline mode but it still needs to be running) Games using things like steam input might also require steam to be running so there is some drm free games that might not run also. Some of those will if you move them outside the steam folder / rename Steam.exe. If you leave them in the steam folder the game will start steam for you if when you launch it.
- YeGoblynQueenne 1y ago>> Name a game distribution platform that doesn't do this. Why? If another platform also disrespects me, does that mean Steam doesn't disrespect me?
- troyvit 1y agoI think that's the point. The GP post basically said, "Gamers can't be messed with." A child post gave a ton of examples of how gamers are messed with, and this comment helps cement that. It does beg the question as to why Steam isn't as evil as it could be but does choose to be as evil as they are. To me (a very casual gamer) they do seem like the least evil. Also don't knock those zip files purchased off of itch.io. Sometimes it's good to visit a cottage industry to see what's passing under the radar of the big guys.
- p_l 1y agoGabe remembers both shareware era, and all the pains to get people to trust Steam in the first place. Your usual publicly traded (or owned by publicly traded entity) corporation in its accidental intelligence does not
- ErroneousBosh 1y ago> That's the same Valve that doesn't let me play the games I paid it for unless they are running on its platform? What exactly does that mean, for you?
- IAmGraydon 1y agoIt's just something to whine about, more than anything.
- rossy 1y agoTo be fair there are a lot of games on Steam that don't have DRM, which means you can just drag them out of the steamapps folder to a computer that doesn't have Steam and they work fine. The decision to add DRM comes from the developer/publisher, not Valve.
- gridspy 1y agoI think that's more a situation where publishers demand some form of DRM so steam is trying to provide a default solution that most publishers are happy with.
- WolfRazu 1y agoDRM is optional on Steam and up to the game developer.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoWere you not aware of that before you purchased the game? How has this negatively impacted you?