Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM? And now two decades later they get worshipped like gods for it by mindless drones.
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.
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.
Securom doesn't brick hard drives, you're confusing it for a different DRM, maybe
Shut up fricking homosexual. Learn to read.
Learn to write you fricking baboon Black person
Learn to read you fricking piece of trash ESL SUBHUMAN SCUM
learn to read.
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.
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.
That's not always online DRM
>Remember how Valve invented always-online DRM?
Considering how Steam has offline mode you probably talk about something else, right?
>Steam has offline mode
your games are owned by this fat frick and you still need internet to download them, you literal steamtard
My half life disc still works.
So does my sin disc
Works on my machine
>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?
you are not a filthy pirate, are you anon ?
piracy is still better than buying (lol) digital thou
Once. Then you can back them up. Either manually or using Steam's backup function. And yes, it works in offline mode.
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.
That's not always-online
>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
Offline mode didnt cone until years later and it still requires a forced monthly online drm check
That is still not what always online means. Even at launch you could
>open Steam
>pull out your network cable
>play HL2
Splitting hairs
Like saying you didnt need discs to play cdrom drm games because you can take it out after launching the game
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.
its almost as if the fat homosexual pedophile that wants open source to your brain and loves paid mods isn't a hero
Nobody will ever cross Gabe because they're afraid he'll find out and delete all their games.
All Hail GabeN.
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.
@aerifactAnon, i summon you!
PC "gamers" are basically cultists at this point lol
>the Artifact fanbase
>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.
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
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.
With gog and itch you dont need to have "faith" since you get the "workaround" as soon as you buy the game
>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
>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
there are plenty of games that are both on itch and steam.
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.
I remember. I only buy games on gog, frick valve