• just_change_it@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Okay, I know nothing at all!

    Hope you enjoy your Steam game library being ripped out of your hands or a forced subscription or recurring purchase or mandatory timed video ads showing up whenever someone who can make decisions for the future of the Valve LLC believes that is the right decision.

    The fact is, whoever has possession (e.g. OWNERSHIP) of the decisions for a company can choose to do this, to not do this, or to do something else, or nothing at all. Inevitably decisions by whoever owns that control will change from the predecessors and eventually someone or some combination of someones constituting the deciding majority will sell out. No one lives forever.

    • Wodge@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Epic Games Store, Gog, UPlay (or whatever ubisoft’s is called), Origin/EA Downloader have all not done this and yet they’re not controlled by Gabe Newell.

      Fact is that steam, no one else, started the road down the licensing and not ownership of games path we are firmly on with regards to PC.

      Most PC’s don’t even have a disc drive any more, it’s all downloads.

      And Gog is the only one that still allows ownership and not licensing of software.

      So yeah, you do know nothing at all.