Comment on [Game] MONSTER HUNTER RISE adds new DRM that breaks it on Steam Deck

5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Valve pioneered DRM, my guy. That’s why Steam exists. It just doesn’t suck.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes and no, I think some DRM was required to get game publishers to even consider digital distribution. Also Steam’s DRM is entirely optional, many games use steam for distribution without any DRM.

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not talking about other publishers. I’m talking about Valve. Steam was invented as a way to distribute Valve’s games with DRM.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And it worked so well that people actively define DRM to include “Except for what Valve does”

        As someone who “fought in the DRM wars” it is infuriating. But I have long since given up on convincing people that Steam’s user based authentication for the purpose of downloading (and now uploading, since network transfers) game files is DRM.

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  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not a guy, but yes. Still, exactly because Valve is partially Big DRM, Valve developing Anti-DRM software as weapon of competition would be quite ironic. Mutually Assured Legal Hell.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t really matter, my guy.

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      • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why, everyone’s bastard?

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