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Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

In my opinion, that's not on Steam to support their client on a long past EOL operating system.

It is on them since they "sold" you a game. They didn't have to build a business model that popularized always checking in DRM, that meant that they were deceiving you when they sold you a game, but it was more profitable for them to do so.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

but wait a minute. when, and how did exactly valve popularize always online DRM?

you know that they have nothing to do with denuvo, and steamdrm is not always online, right?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Steamdrm requires periodic online check-ins, which is the same thing for the purpose of this discussion about them forcing system upgrades.

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