Posted January 01, 2017
Annoying rant incoming:
I recently suggested on the Steam forums that it would be awesome for some games on Steam to offer a DRM free installer to download, up to the developer of the game of course. At least the games that Steam fanboys always point out as "DRM free" whenever someone brings up Steam as DRM.
Got a quick reply by a Steam forum mod insinuating that the only people who want DRM free installers for games are basically pirates (people who don't own the game).
I guess everyone buying games on GOG is a fucking pirate. Ok.
Even when i've searched through a game forum on Steam or a game's own forum to see if anyone has said anything about a certain game coming to GOG, i'll find it full of idiots saying if you want something DRM Free you're a pirate. It's one thing to like Steam. It's another to praise something anti consumer like DRM. I understand not letting DRM stop you from buying and enjoying a game, but to defend it even though it only hurts paying customers is dumb.
People love to bring up all the benefits of Steam like the social aspects (friends/achievements) and things like the workshop. But those things don't require Steam to be DRM! Or am i wrong?
I don't care about GOG vs Steam. I just want to feel like i own the games i'm buying. If Steam offered DRM Free installers where the developer wouldn't mind offering them (like when the developer already has their game released DRM free on their website/Humble Bundle/GOG) i'd be buying way more games there.
Eventually Steam is going to be gone. What happens to all the games on it? And if people here are gonna say who cares what happens in 10-20 years, it would be kind of funny considering we play sometimes 20+ year old games here on GOG.
Sorry for the rant. Like i said, Steam is bigger, has way more pull with publishers and developers, and has way more games that don't make it here, including smaller indie games. So if Steam started offering DRM free installers so i could back up my games and feel like i'd actually own them instead of rent them... there'd really not be much reason for me personally to use GOG as much anymore.
I recently suggested on the Steam forums that it would be awesome for some games on Steam to offer a DRM free installer to download, up to the developer of the game of course. At least the games that Steam fanboys always point out as "DRM free" whenever someone brings up Steam as DRM.
Got a quick reply by a Steam forum mod insinuating that the only people who want DRM free installers for games are basically pirates (people who don't own the game).
I guess everyone buying games on GOG is a fucking pirate. Ok.
Even when i've searched through a game forum on Steam or a game's own forum to see if anyone has said anything about a certain game coming to GOG, i'll find it full of idiots saying if you want something DRM Free you're a pirate. It's one thing to like Steam. It's another to praise something anti consumer like DRM. I understand not letting DRM stop you from buying and enjoying a game, but to defend it even though it only hurts paying customers is dumb.
People love to bring up all the benefits of Steam like the social aspects (friends/achievements) and things like the workshop. But those things don't require Steam to be DRM! Or am i wrong?
I don't care about GOG vs Steam. I just want to feel like i own the games i'm buying. If Steam offered DRM Free installers where the developer wouldn't mind offering them (like when the developer already has their game released DRM free on their website/Humble Bundle/GOG) i'd be buying way more games there.
Eventually Steam is going to be gone. What happens to all the games on it? And if people here are gonna say who cares what happens in 10-20 years, it would be kind of funny considering we play sometimes 20+ year old games here on GOG.
Sorry for the rant. Like i said, Steam is bigger, has way more pull with publishers and developers, and has way more games that don't make it here, including smaller indie games. So if Steam started offering DRM free installers so i could back up my games and feel like i'd actually own them instead of rent them... there'd really not be much reason for me personally to use GOG as much anymore.
Post edited January 01, 2017 by user deleted
