• zephorah@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    Steam is a last bastion of integrity. Given the present timeline, it will probably be bought out by EA.

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      3 days ago

      Gabe has stated several times that as long as he is running things he will never go public and let it get ruined like that.

      Once he’s gone though I suspect steam will sell for 18 quintillion dollars to Microsoft or something.

      It’ll probably go to shit immediately afterwards.

      • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needed so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.

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          3 days ago

          Gog keeps hitting me with admin access requests when I’m not even doing anything on it. Repeatedly. Until I kill the task. Not a fan.

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            3 days ago

            Because of the DRM free nature of GOG, you do not have to use their GOG Galaxy client.

            You could use a different client (like Heroic) or you could just download the games straight from the GOG website.

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        3 days ago

        Really hoping (He probably does) he has a succession plan in place to prevent that when he’s gone