facts for that?

no1 uses GoG

@JoeyJoestar1337 stop wasting time on discord

and get a family

the drm is a somewhat valid point - i depends how its done. calling home regularly is bullshit. license keys and an install time check are fine with me

Yes, and there is tremendous value in a platform that has all your major games, a method to make and talk to friends, and updates said games automatically. There is no other platform that can do this as good as steam can. Steam is like the fucking google of gaming. If you want it, 9/10 it’s there.

I got time to burn retard

U dont

lol

imagine not going for internships

early

what a fag

lazy

If a platform has the means and right to arbitrarily deprive you of your ability to install and play a game your bought, then it's fundamentally flawed

@system11 Steam just requires 1-time validation

It's really nothing to do with DRM

and that happens when u download the game

Agreed @Eccles

you can use Steam offline

for any time you want

Coolitic said "yeah I have a job at minimum wage while I spend all my money on PC parts"

"all"

no I save

because I've had multiple jobs now

Do u invest?

no, I save

There are even ways to remove account validation from steam games. It’s different for every game obviously, but it IS possible.

All steam need to do is change their "backup" option to include a standalone installer

???

why

Take at least 10% of your savings and put it away for investment

no

Fuck off Joey no one cares

Your choice but the stock market is there for a reason

@Eccles you arent backing that up with a reason

the pc market is smaller than consoles, and both are dawrfed by mobile - that's why im fairly chilled out about someone deleting steam. people would find solutions, at the end of the day it you could easily build a web site publishers and indies could simply list titles with screenshots and shop links

you connect to the internet either way

Why the fuck does it need a reason?

and Steam isn't a big client

lol

@system11 congrats, you just made steam 2.

Steam is a small client

doesn't do anything in the background except auto-update

Doesn't matter how big the client is - the fact is it is a client at all, and they can arbitrarily block your access to it

and needs you to connect only once to use your games

they cannot

you can use it offline

right, so you agree it's easily replaceable? 😉

I don’t agree that it’s replaceable, I’m saying that you basically just created the same monster you hope to defeat

nor have they ever made any attempt to ever

They have

not once

ever

steam also doesnt feature really high in the sources of evil anyway

Yes

They did it to me last year

citation needed

for?

They ended support for XP

and?

use old client

...

play offline

Wouldn't connect

play offline

Couldn't reinstall

Upgrade your fucking OS, you sperg.

your fault for not backing up

retard

without Steam

you'd have to back it up anyways

You need the client to restore from the backup you daft sod

they don't support the commodore 64 either. fuck steam.

no

you retard

Jesus you're a boomer

must be in IT

But for real though, you can’t blame the company for abandoning a deprecated OS that the OS developers themselves abandoned years prior. If you don’t upgrade, that’s on you.

I can back up my games just fine

and have done it

multiple times

The model is the problem, Gespa

and they start up perfectly

you just dont know how to use a computer

rolling incompatability is a feature of PC gaming, you just have to accept it

for new games

old games work fine

It's why I don't buy new games

That and they're shit

lol

definite boomer

And I don't have time

wut

time is reasonable

i probably own/play more retro games than the entire discord server put together, and even i wouldnt go as far as 'new games r shit'

The DRM should be done via webservice

Eccles, literally every company on the internet abandoned operating systems at some point. There is no sense in keeping a system up to date if the chances are it won’t be able to support it in the future. They probably abandoned your OS because the architecture used to create it is so old, that their next updates would probably destroy your computer. That isn’t their fault. It’s yours.

the DRM is one-time activation

you literally have to download the game anyways

You're missing the point, Gespa