8Bit |   | 🍶🦊Jun 28
This video is such a good supercut showing all the things that led to @StopKillingGames . The "chop off your fingers" analogy made me smile sadly cause talking with people why I don't want DRM in my games fits this so perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlOX3wRQvUg
Stop Killing Games: A History

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Show thread8Bit |   | 🍶🦊
I've really not been as vocal about the campaign as I should. Cause I've been beating that drum for 20+ years and I'm just so tired. Cause now people get upset about "Nintendo can brick your Switch by banning you from their online services" which is just the result of the state of games in general.
Jun 28 at 12:25pmWeb
Show thread8Bit |   | 🍶🦊Jun 28
Is like... one of my favorite games is Doom Eternal. But I waited for a massive discount because I could lose it at any given moment. Denuvo may just disintegrate or I may lose access to my Steam account for any reason. Valve's a good company, but it can TECHNICALLY happen. The game's not mine.
Show thread8Bit |   | 🍶🦊Jun 28
"Software is never yours". So sick of that argument. Look: If you give me a way to back up the software and I can put it on a device and use the software without any "help" from an external service (See GOG offline installers), then for all intends and purposes, it's mine. Otherwise it's not.
Show threadPrimoJun 28
@memoriesin8bit happy to see people not putting valve on a pedestal.
Show thread8Bit |   | 🍶🦊Jun 28
@Primo They have certainly earned some trust from me, but I remember when HL2 came out and a friend couldn't play their store bought version because of this new Steam-thing and their bad internet. What I see today I see as an extension of what began all the way back then. I remember we set in a bar back then and said "This Steam thing will never last".
Show threadPrimoJun 28
@memoriesin8bit my first exposures to steam were around 2010, first some schoolmate who was way too enthusiastic about everything, be it alpha purchases (minecraft) regular updates, DLCs and everything.
without even being involved too much in online discussions, online gaming or anything I already was expecting the worst.
And purchasing a game in a store and then the disc essentially juet containing a steam installer put me on a path of, admittedly mowtly theatrical in nature, hatred towards steam.
And in the last few years I grew really tired of the vitriol thrown against Epic, often founded entirely on brand loyalty.
For me, aside from DRM free games through GoG and similar things, having too many lainchers (more like shops and fences) is more an opportunity to spread my eggs overbmultiple baskets.
If I can't access steam anymore at least my microsoft and battle.net games would still exist.
(Disregarding that DRM free is an objectively better szenario)