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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 172 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (42 children)

New bypass just dropped: not buying a single-player game that makes you create and log into a third-party service exclusively because that service wants money in the form of your data/wants to enforce DRM.

Edit: the 'Steam tho' comments below are true and Steam's DRM does suck (I use GOG when I can), but they miss the point I'm making, which is that if you're buying a game through Steam, you already have the account set up to comply with the DRM. That's just inherent to the steps of purchasing the game on Steam. Whereas for something like a Sony account here, you don't necessarily have that, and unlike Steam for instance that at least has the value proposition of cloud saves, you're getting fuck-all in return here. Additionally, this account is used for likely only one or two games, just introducing a needless logistical hurdle for account management. Think of how many dozens of essentially burner accounts you would have if every game publisher put this bullshit in.

[–] Xanvial@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] imecth@fedia.io 19 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Sounds good to me. It's annoying that connecting to a store and a social media platform has become so normalized. I just want to play a game.

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

That's what I thought back in 2007. Now I kinda like the convenience. If they added an option to download the games, like GOG, it'd be perfect.

Steam DRM is a joke anyways and not all games on steam have it, so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch for them to get rid of it.

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