Like fuck, the majority of games on steam have no drm. It’s almost exclusively triple A games that wouldn’t be sold on gog ever because the companies making them want drm of some form. So it’s a moot point. And for the remaining games with it, it’s almost exclusively “drm” in the form of a single dll that hooks into steams client so cloud storage and the overlay can work… And it’s optional. And client side with no checks and can easily be removed.
Out of the 1000+ games in my steam library I have less then 80 with drm, or even need the steam client running at all to launch.
I just flat out have never understood how people think steam is some drm monster when they give so little fucks that it’s entirely and fully a developers choice.
Like hell I just make a zip back up of my games. That’s all gog installers are after all. You download once from their servers and you just have an installer, steam is exactly the same it just auto unzips it for you. If you want a installer you can just… Make your own.
They aren’t calling Steam “the devil of DRM”. The title is a list of three separate topics discussed. They spoke about competition with Steam, then with a separate question, they spoke about DRM.
Try opening the article. The title lists a synopsis of what its talking about, which is the three main points: The founder has issues with steam AND games that have mandatory drm. This is not a single bullet point. Read before reply, you just waste time otherwise.
He completely misread it. But it’s also grammatically ambiguous. It could be interpreted as a non-essential clause, essentially giving extra information about Valve that isn’t necessary to understand the main sentence.
It would be weird to include a non-essential, highly editorially clause in a headline, though, unless it was a direct quote. But, in that case, it should be in quotation marks.
This is an impressive snapshot of what is wrong with pretty much all discourse today. There’s a wonderful article presented here and you have very clearly only read the title, misunderstood it, and wrote a 200 word reply that is completely off base because of it. Then, at least eight other people at the time of my comment did the same thing except they just upvoted you.
To anyone reading this who did not read the article… Just read the article! It will take you five minutes. It will enrich your brain. This applies to all articles you want to comment on, not just this one.
To be fair, they’re both correct interpretations of how the title is written. It’s the article itself that makes it a lot clearer than a single-sentence title could.
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I wouldn’t remotely call valve the devil of drm.
Like fuck, the majority of games on steam have no drm. It’s almost exclusively triple A games that wouldn’t be sold on gog ever because the companies making them want drm of some form. So it’s a moot point. And for the remaining games with it, it’s almost exclusively “drm” in the form of a single dll that hooks into steams client so cloud storage and the overlay can work… And it’s optional. And client side with no checks and can easily be removed.
Out of the 1000+ games in my steam library I have less then 80 with drm, or even need the steam client running at all to launch.
I just flat out have never understood how people think steam is some drm monster when they give so little fucks that it’s entirely and fully a developers choice.
Like hell I just make a zip back up of my games. That’s all gog installers are after all. You download once from their servers and you just have an installer, steam is exactly the same it just auto unzips it for you. If you want a installer you can just… Make your own.
They aren’t calling Steam “the devil of DRM”. The title is a list of three separate topics discussed. They spoke about competition with Steam, then with a separate question, they spoke about DRM.
Try opening the article. The title lists a synopsis of what its talking about, which is the three main points: The founder has issues with steam AND games that have mandatory drm. This is not a single bullet point. Read before reply, you just waste time otherwise.
then the title is misleading
omg
Nah, if it was just referencing two things the headline wouldn’t need another comma before the “and”. It’s clearly three separate topics.
He completely misread it. But it’s also grammatically ambiguous. It could be interpreted as a non-essential clause, essentially giving extra information about Valve that isn’t necessary to understand the main sentence.
It would be weird to include a non-essential, highly editorially clause in a headline, though, unless it was a direct quote. But, in that case, it should be in quotation marks.
This is an impressive snapshot of what is wrong with pretty much all discourse today. There’s a wonderful article presented here and you have very clearly only read the title, misunderstood it, and wrote a 200 word reply that is completely off base because of it. Then, at least eight other people at the time of my comment did the same thing except they just upvoted you.
To anyone reading this who did not read the article… Just read the article! It will take you five minutes. It will enrich your brain. This applies to all articles you want to comment on, not just this one.
You misread the title.
To be fair, they’re both correct interpretations of how the title is written. It’s the article itself that makes it a lot clearer than a single-sentence title could.
Yes, but for that reason there is a link to the article right next to the title
You’re right - heaven forbid anyone would read the article before dropping a four-paragraph rant based on their incorrect understanding of the title.