DRM-free on PC was a mistake. Companies like GOG.com and Humble Bundle harmed PC gaming with their "No DRM" bullshit.
DRM-free on PC was a mistake. Companies like GOG.com and Humble Bundle harmed PC gaming with their "No DRM" bullshit
Jaxon Diaz
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Parker Butler
Shut the fuck up, bootlicker.
Adrian Stewart
based epic shill
Jacob Murphy
How's that corporate cock feeling in your ass OP?
Matthew Hernandez
>baseless assertion without any reasoning
Alexander Torres
I know you're trying to present this as an edgy, contrarian opinion, but if the popularity of Steam is any indication, this is what the majority of PC gamers actually believe.
Aaron Morris
How so? People were going to crack any sort of DRM scheme eventually pirates who don't want to pay for anything are not going to pay. They will wait for the inevitable crack whether it's a day or a year. The only games that aren't cracked are ones no one cares about like Handball or those with heavy online emphasis that are basically worthless without unlike access like Battlefront or Battlefield.
Julian Ramirez
The majority of Steam isn't anti-GOG though.
Colton Foster
epic is the future and the only people who think otherwise simply don't like change
ty, next
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Evan Cooper
>They will wait for the inevitable crack whether it's a day or a year.
>Immediate piracy of AAA games is not always a given, as I learned from Martin in the comments. The best example is Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory, which is, by all definitions, a AAA blockbuster game. It used the controversial StarForce 3.0 DRM and took 422 days to be cracked, well beyond the game's shelf life.
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Liam Edwards
>not the first post from this IP
Christian Perez
I want to believe you, and yet I frequently see:
> No Steam; No Buy
used unironically.
Noah Gonzalez
I think, when people say that, they actually mean "No massive Steam sale; no buy".
Parker Robinson
Only towards games with cancerous additional launchers like Origin and Epic. You don't see it used towards GOG.
Joshua Gonzalez
Because GOG doesn't has relevant exclusives.
Josiah Morris
The future of forgotten digital stores that tried replacing Steam and failed.
Jacob Morales
Anyone that goes out of their way to challenge others to change their mind has no intention of listening in good faith
Also who is that guy in his 40s sitting on what looks to be a college campus sitting smugly to challenge kids that have just left their homes for the first time
Daniel Barnes
Yes, exactly. Exclusives are console cancer and have no place on PC. GOG doesn't do that shit, the only GOG exclusives are games that are basically abandonware and obscure stuff that was never offered to Steam. And that is why Steam users don't hate GOG.
Eli Thompson
t. indie dev
Dylan Phillips
> No Steam; No Buy
I unironically buy steam games for their DRM. The DRM gives the steam games value. Why buy the DRM free games when you can pirate them for free?
Luis Gonzalez
Pc users are retarded. Gamers must be the only race that would rather have a game with DRM (i.e. on their precious steam acc) than not have DRM on GoG
Evan Mitchell
>epic is the future and the only people who think otherwise simply don't like change
people said the same thing about Crystal Pepsi.
Liam Morgan
My point is, if a game was in every store, GamersGate, Playism, Humble Store, FireFlower Games (all of them DRM-free), GreenManGaming, Epic Games Store, Origin and Uplay, but not on Steam, no way people won't say "No Steam, no buy".
Based PC gamer telling it like it is.
Benjamin Reyes
Indie devs are more likely to make DRM-free releases. THQ and EA bundles were DRM'd as fuck.
Kayden Adams
>the storefront that still doesn't have a fucking shopping cart feature is the future
Caleb Lewis
Indie devs are also the most likely to bitch about piracy. They're a varied bunch, because there's so fucking many of them. AA games are dead.
Blake Bennett
>say something first so i can say no and contribute nothing while "winning"
kys
Dylan Morales
DRM gets cracked anyway so whats the difference?
Kayden Watson
>Indie devs are also the most likely to bitch about piracy.
AAA companies instead prefer to make more and more draconian DRM.
Leo Hughes
Steam "DRM" is non invasive and can be removed easily. every game I own can be easily preserved without seam. if that wasn't the case I wouldn't buy from steam.
steam is tolerated because it's convenient. people also like achievements. DRM is still inherently cancer.
GOG is much better for consumers it's just not as big a platform.
Landon Reed
It doesn't always tho. the really malicious ones sometimes just get half assed bypasses and the game is still held back by the DRM and unstable.
Games like the Latest DMC5 with bloody palace update that has no denuvo-less exe will probably never be cracked because no one wants to bother for an update.
Sebastian Gutierrez
Dominic Bell
You can pirate Steam games too
John Hill
>Humble Bundle
>no DRM
Dude, half the shit in their monthly bundle has been infested with denuvo. Shit made me cancel my sub,I don't want that shit anywhere near my rig. Those are the same dudes that made the sony rootkit.
Joshua Adams
Well, in their beginnings they were 100% DRM-free. Their ocassional Humble Indie Bundle still is, despite the downfall in quality.
Colton Scott
>huuurDUUURRR DRM GOOD DRM KEEP GAME SAF!
DRM is cracked hacked and made obsilete within a week sometimes days even just hours after its first release. so... no, you're and idiot, or troll.
Landon Wilson
Because they're good games and you want to support the devs?
those are the only games you should buy.
Jaxson Johnson
i just pirate everything so all that drm shit doesnt botter me at all
Dylan Phillips
No, that's just your delusions.
Daniel Reyes
That doesn't mean people who didn't want to buy it bought it.
Owen Lee
>humble indie bundle
>every game is multiplatform and DRM-free
>humble bundles now
>steam keys for windows-only games with denuvo
Adrian Martin
Thank God. We would have missed kino like this in the early era.
Hudson Collins
Define 'harmed'. In what way has pc gaming been negatively effected?
Wyatt Harris
Don't remind me. Don't remind me
Kayden Johnson
>TW3 sold incredibly well without any DRM
Hmm