Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM?

Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM? And now two decades later they get worshipped like gods for it by mindless drones.

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  1. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    no, I do remember securom and other bullshit though bricking 1 of my cdr drives and the other not even fricking working.

    Thanks to that I pirate most games now.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      Securom doesn't brick hard drives, you're confusing it for a different DRM, maybe

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Shut up fricking homosexual. Learn to read.

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Learn to write you fricking baboon Black person

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            Learn to read you fricking piece of trash ESL SUBHUMAN SCUM

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Learn to write you fricking baboon Black person

        learn to read.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Moron. You weren't even alive when Securom was bricking hardware.
        Funny thing is that Denuvo was created by former Securom gays and yet people wonder why they can't be trusted.

  2. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    No, but I do remember people getting pissed about the online activation required for Half-Life 2. I also remember Valve popularizing lootboxes for microtransactions, and inventing the battlepass with Dota 2.

  3. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    That's not always online DRM

  4. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM?
    Considering how Steam has offline mode you probably talk about something else, right?

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      >Steam has offline mode
      your games are owned by this fat frick and you still need internet to download them, you literal steamtard

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        My half life disc still works.
        So does my sin disc
        Works on my machine

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >you still need internet to download them

        No shit, that doesn't make it always online DRM though. Do you think pirated games have always online DRM because you need an internet connection to download them too?

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          you are not a filthy pirate, are you anon ?
          piracy is still better than buying (lol) digital thou

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Once. Then you can back them up. Either manually or using Steam's backup function. And yes, it works in offline mode.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        Every game needs an internet connection to download these days anon. Half the packages you see in store just give you a digital code instead of a real disc, and the ones that do still make you download 50+ gigs before you can play.

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        That's not always-online

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >Piracy is always online because you need to be online to torrent
        No shit you need to connect to the internet to download a game
        Welcome to 15 years ago even on consoles

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      That's not always online DRM

      Offline mode didnt cone until years later and it still requires a forced monthly online drm check

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        That is still not what always online means. Even at launch you could
        >open Steam
        >pull out your network cable
        >play HL2

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          Splitting hairs

          Like saying you didnt need discs to play cdrom drm games because you can take it out after launching the game

          • 2 weeks ago
            Anonymous

            ALWAYS online means ALWAYS online.
            Steam is just online DRM.
            SimCity (2013) or Diablo 3 had always online DRM. If you lose your connection you can't play it.

  5. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    its almost as if the fat homosexual pedophile that wants open source to your brain and loves paid mods isn't a hero

  6. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody will ever cross Gabe because they're afraid he'll find out and delete all their games.
    All Hail GabeN.

  7. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Oh yeah I remember all the others getting into this just-a-fad internet business thing a few years after steam except they brought online drm, required dvd, always running malware like securom or starforce, and no auto-updates.
    Man I wonder how valve did it and why they're not despised.

  8. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    @aerifactAnon, i summon you!

  9. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    PC "gamers" are basically cultists at this point lol

  10. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >the Artifact fanbase

  11. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    >Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM
    I seem to forget that part, because they fricking didn't, and games on Steam themselves don't require a constant internet connection.

  12. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    digital only DRM games would've still happened at some point. I rather have Steam than some garbage from Microsoft or others.
    Imagine a world were GFWL became the biggest gaming client

  13. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    Gabe also said if Steam ever gets discontinued or shutdown, they'll create a work around so games will still work. I don't have that faith in any other game dev or launcher.

    • 2 weeks ago
      Anonymous

      With gog and itch you dont need to have "faith" since you get the "workaround" as soon as you buy the game

      • 2 weeks ago
        Anonymous

        >itch
        indie trash that is so bad it can't get on to steam (let that sink in)
        >gog
        anything decent comes out years after it launched on steam

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          >anything decent comes out years after it launched on steam
          So pirate it first or buy a cheap key if u need the steam features. Then buy when it when comes to gog

        • 2 weeks ago
          Anonymous

          there are plenty of games that are both on itch and steam.

  14. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    People actually love authority as long as it's "their" guy. Valve being a monopoly? That's cool because gabe is /ourguy/

    You'll deny it but this is the fact. Valve was also the first to try paid mods.

  15. 2 weeks ago
    Anonymous

    I remember. I only buy games on gog, frick valve

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