Trying to compare Valve to Sony on the basis of pro/anti-customer basis is a great way to embarrass yourself. Yea, Valve doesn’t have disks, so they’re the same right?
Valve is far from perfect but I for one still have access to the movies I bought on Steam even after they delisted them. They’re winning again by doing literally nothing.
Maybe I’m missing a tick here. But with valve you can just copy the game and use it, right? You don’t need the steam launcher. Unless the game itself has DRM, of course.
Valve is in the same position of power, or an even greater position of power, as Sony. But Valve has never (to my knowledge) removed games from customers’ libraries without compensation. Valve has the track record of not abusing their position of power to the detriment of gamers.
Personally, I still don’t like the amount of power they do hold, which is why I prefer to get my games from GOG when I can. But historically, Valve is not anti-consumer. Valve/Gaben are no angels, they have their fair share of billionaire behavior, but there is simply no comparison with Sony.
Yeah this was the point I was about to say myself. It’s not that Valve has me stanning them at all, but rather the experience has been the same since Steam’s inception in 2003. I go to their Store, I buy the game (but really the game licence, now that we’re more aware), I download it, and play it. Games almost never get removed from your library unless they find them to be malicious (I bought a key for Prey 2006 on eBay years after delisting and was playing it within an hour), so it’s been rather reassuring that money spent is value retained in perpetuity until proven otherwise.
If Valve starts making the same terrible decisions though, they can receive the same pitchfork brigade as everyone else.
I do pay attention to what I’m actually buying now that I’m older and more knowledgeable about licensing, but don’t let FUD ruin your experience as a gamer. Just keep your ear to the ground for any terrible policy changes.
Trying to compare Valve to Sony on the basis of pro/anti-customer basis is a great way to embarrass yourself. Yea, Valve doesn’t have disks, so they’re the same right?
Yep, forgoing the previous reply you nonces had the mods remove, let’s double down. Yeah, it makes them just, as, bad.
If it makes you blind to capitalistic policies and makes you trust a literal billionare, then I’m not the one who should be embarassed.
Valve is far from perfect but I for one still have access to the movies I bought on Steam even after they delisted them. They’re winning again by doing literally nothing.
Embarassing yourself as a blind fanboy is way better. It’s okay if proton linux man(the market he sold you) does it, draw a line.
Maybe I’m missing a tick here. But with valve you can just copy the game and use it, right? You don’t need the steam launcher. Unless the game itself has DRM, of course.
it’s okay to take a break from the internet if it makes you feel that way and say things like this
but this is my calm setting…
That’s problematic
Then definitely take a break from the Internet and get out more.
The more consoomers we get from reddit, I swear…
oh okay then you’re just an asshole on a daily basis gotcha
Valve is in the same position of power, or an even greater position of power, as Sony. But Valve has never (to my knowledge) removed games from customers’ libraries without compensation. Valve has the track record of not abusing their position of power to the detriment of gamers.
Personally, I still don’t like the amount of power they do hold, which is why I prefer to get my games from GOG when I can. But historically, Valve is not anti-consumer. Valve/Gaben are no angels, they have their fair share of billionaire behavior, but there is simply no comparison with Sony.
…nyeah, fuck it. I’ll upvote that. That’s fair!
Yeah this was the point I was about to say myself. It’s not that Valve has me stanning them at all, but rather the experience has been the same since Steam’s inception in 2003. I go to their Store, I buy the game (but really the game licence, now that we’re more aware), I download it, and play it. Games almost never get removed from your library unless they find them to be malicious (I bought a key for Prey 2006 on eBay years after delisting and was playing it within an hour), so it’s been rather reassuring that money spent is value retained in perpetuity until proven otherwise.
If Valve starts making the same terrible decisions though, they can receive the same pitchfork brigade as everyone else.
I do pay attention to what I’m actually buying now that I’m older and more knowledgeable about licensing, but don’t let FUD ruin your experience as a gamer. Just keep your ear to the ground for any terrible policy changes.
I have had one problem game on steam I lost access to. Sort of. and it was an EA game I bought on steam. But then now it’s no longer on steam.
Last time I tried I was able to play it on the EA app.
I can’t recall exactly how but I was able to link the steam purchase to EA app.
American McGee’s Alice return
Solid game.
EA really screwed over American McGee. Refuse to sell him the rights to his own ip but also won’t let him or anyone else make a sequel.
Idk if there was other games EA did this to on steam but I only have the EA app for this one game. I replay it every now and then. Old favorite.