• ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been incentivised not to, because Steam + Proton work so well.

    Probably worth downloading some backups and getting them running though, in case Steam decides to rug pull

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      1 year ago

      Same here. Haven’t even thought about pirating games because Steam is just working.

      Seems to me that Spotify and Steam has been really successful preventing piracy in music and games, but the streaming movie industry has failed because they got greedy.

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        1 year ago

        valve is a private company, so they don’t need to jerk off the shareholders, and they can invest in what they want

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        1 year ago

        Yeah steam does it very well. On stuff like the switch, the prices are so crazy I immediately go hack my console. But in steam, prices were so much lower to the point in which I never thought about it.

        I only recently started doing it when I noticed some games block you from playing offline.

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      1 year ago

      proton makes things work so well… i just sit there at /c/paitientgamer … and i’m as filthy as they come

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      1 year ago

      I think we can trust steam until there is an acquisition or a change in hands of some kind. But better safe than sorry!

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          1 year ago

          To be fair, if you already bought the game then you’re fine, but the only way to play Riddick now is to pirate it.

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            1 year ago

            This is true. Any game that you already have is still playable even after it’s pulled from the store for whatever reason. You can even uninstall it and reinstall it from your library to your computer when ever you want. I have a couple games no longer available and never had a problem.

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              1 year ago

              You’ve obviously never played it. It was one of the best games on Xbox.

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                1 year ago

                I admit, I didn’t, but I thought the movie was so horrible that I couldn’t imagine how the game could possibly be better. Glad to hear they redeemed it a bit.

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      1 year ago

      i use steam+proton to run cracked steam games on my deck quite frequently actually. just gotta add em as non-steam games and tell em to use whichever proton version