Why do people think it's suddenly ok if Valve does it?
Like I mean literally anything such as DRM, micro transactions, banning people, always online, etc. Etc.
Not making excuses, it's how I see it.
@thatbrickster @SuperDicq steam DRM is a formality anyway, you can crack it yourself super easily
@SuperDicq
@thatbrickster@cawfee.club @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club The fact that something is "easy to crack" does not make a company a good company. That just makes them incompetent at restricting you.
@phnt@fluffytail.org @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @thatbrickster@cawfee.club Then why do they do it if they don't want to restrict you?
Piracy is a service problem. Don't include any DRM in your marketplace and barely anybody will use it (see GOG), include too much and piracy becomes prevalent. Strike the balance where it is easier to just "buy" the barely DRMed version, then torrenting a cracked version with the possibility of malware and you won.
@phnt@fluffytail.org @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @thatbrickster@cawfee.club
Don't include any DRM in your marketplace and barely anybody will use it
Maybe we shouldn't be having a "marketplace" in the first place. This is what causes all problems. People no longer develop games for fun, but to get rich.If you don't have a way to buy games, people won't make them, simply because they cannot afford to or it would take a decade to do in their free time. Good free software games basically don't exist because of that. There's Xonotic, STK, Veloren and Mindustry. That's basically it.
@phnt @thatbrickster @beardalaxy @SuperDicq
>If the opensource/free software community proved anything right, it's the fact that people don't support the developers of the software they are using in 90+% of the cases.
Which is why the best thing to do is to adopt the Ardour business model and sell the binaries and profit off of those who don't know how to compile from source or to get the software elsewhere.
