It is active. Fuck off.

mainly that

lol

well im going to play a game now. at least this convo was more fun and less dumb than, for example, media matters articles on how tim pool is right wing

@Eccles I mean, you purchase the games. And you own them.

nothing touches leftivists for dumb takes.

@Gespa by his logic

if it isn't open-source

it aint "owned"

in my opinion

Steam rarely if ever deletes user accounts, the only ones it does are those that are using them for criminal activity. That’s literally the only thing you can’t do on steam.

you get the product

and it can break

Fuck even VAC bans don’t disable you from using the service, just stops you from playing on VAC protected servers

it is even clearly defined *how* it can break

But the thing is most games are steam ARE open source

Literally nobody cares

no they arent

Well not open source but open

My bad

?

DRM-free you mean?

Nah, let me explain

Because of how steam’s integrity validation works, most of the game files have to be open or otherwise easily accessible so they can be read by the server and then compared to the most recent (or in the case of betas, the cached) version so that it can be repaired or reinstalled

uhhh

no

they just run a checksum

That's not what open-source means

Yes Eccles, I know

Which is why I fucking corrected myself

you can literally lock it into a few large pak files

and have a single executable

and the verification process still works

because it's a checksum, that's it

Fair enough

I’ll take that, I got it wrong

Doesn’t change the fact that Eccles is still an XP using boomer<:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

Was

im dreading windows 7 end of life

It was the being forced to change that made me fall out with Steam because of the way they ended the support

Ironically it was Microsoft -sensible- decision to allow the installation of WIndows 10 without a license key that saved me