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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] -4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've despised steam ever since they forced it on me to play HL2.

I hate the store page that pops up whenever I want to play a game.

I hate the friends list.

I miss when I would just install a game and it was just an icon on my desktop. Now they think they should own my gaming experience and they're so powerful I can't say no.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can download games using steamcmd (command line) and pick only games that are DRM free on Steam. Valve doesn't force DRM (even it's own one) so, if you see a game that require DRM (Steam or whatever) it's solely because the publisher put the DRM into it.

Once you've downloaded your drm-free game through steamcmd, you can basically zip the folder and store your game wherever you want... even on the cloud (your own personal space, if you share it publicly it's piracy).

Also, you're not even forced to use Steam: itch.io and GoG are preferable ways to buy games and improve your drm-free wallet-vote situation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I just want to comment that your comment covered all my bases so well I didn't need to respond to OP myself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

That last para is missing the fact that you'd have to go to a store and buy a CD and come back home and play vs downloading in a few minutes in today's time plus get insane discounts. Not to mention easily conquer compatibility issues. Also use controllers very easily including dualshocks. You can still have desktop icons, you can ignore the friends list, and disable notifications/pop-ups.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ok boomer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

that's not what that means