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Steam normalized the loss of resale rights on PC long before the consoles caught up. Younger people don't even realize it's a right that prior generations gave
by gdulli 3mo ago
Steam normalized the loss of resale rights on PC long before the consoles caught up. Younger people don't even realize it's a right that prior generations gave up.
- alightsoul 3mo agoand yet, Steam is seen as the superior service that deserves to keep their monopoly.
- nottorp 3mo agoThe thing with Steam is that it's more convenient than piratebay, but for the collector in you, piratebay is still there for insurance. Not to mention whatever's available on GoG where you don't even need a crack to make backups. With Sony you have no insurance.
- callamdelaney 3mo agoSteam isn't a monopoly, it's just a good service. Why would I use a shittier one created by, generally, extremely greedy and woke corporations?
- Larrikin 3mo agoWhat do you mean woke corporations? How does that affect you?
- callamdelaney 3mo agoBy politicizing games, ruining them with their agenda, and in a hundred other ways.
- 0x457 3mo agoYou have to be very dense to think AAA video game devs have some woke agenda and not just knee-jerk reaction to market changes. There are plenty of games for you to goon to.
- Strom 3mo agoWhat's the difference between calling it "woke agenda" or "market changes"? Seems to me you agree with the other poster, that AAA game devs now make games targeted towards different people.
- Larrikin 3mo agoWoke in nearly all contexts in 2026 can be substituted for a racial, xenophobic, and/or homophobic slur and mean exactly the point of the person who used it. The lack of actual examples when called out makes it very obvious.
- Strom 3mo agoSure, but that's just arguing over the morality of terms. On the one side you have people worried that their culture is being destroyed, on the other side you have people worried that their culture isn't represented. Both sides seem to think the other side is the devil. Having gamed for three decades now I'd say the shift has been very real. There's a much larger fraction of games that have representation of women, mental illness, disabilities, races, etc. Is that progress or destruction? Depends on which side you fall on. You're saying there are no examples, does that mean you think no shift has happened? That games are still made the same way? If so, are you claiming that games always had this sort of diversity of representation? Or that games nowadays still don't have it?
- Larrikin 3mo agoI have no respect for this argument. It's similar to asking was the end of Jim Crow or slavery progress or the destruction of white spaces and to be sensitive to the people who wanted those to continue. I think a lot of the issues we have today are because people in both periods did not ostracize those people like Europe ostracized the Nazis. Having a main character that isn't a straight white male is so minor in comparison. But giving that idea credence is a dangerous path backwards to those arguments of the past
- Larrikin 3mo agoWhich games specifically were ruined? How were they ruined? Can you provide a single example and explain how it is woke and why it ruins the game?
- gdulli 3mo agoYes, and it's a tragedy that people have given up so much for the shallow convenience of having a shiny launcher and not having to figure out clicking on setup.exe.
- Strom 3mo agoIf Steam were that shallow you would see competing efforts like Origin, Uplay, Epic Games Store etc take off. In reality Steam is anything but shallow, it's the cumulation of two decades of adding customer focused features. Competing efforts not only can't be bothered to invest as much into features, but they always add features with the goal of benefiting the store owning company, not the customer. That's a key difference that makes them fail.
- z0r 3mo agoSteam has existed for an eternity compared to any console specific game store. It's not great that you can't resell what you have on Steam, but at least you get to 'keep' it.