• Rose@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, making it a requirement for playing your physical copy of Half-Life definitely looks like good will to me.

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      1 year ago

      And in turn diminished the industry’s piracy problm for many years, making PC Games market a stable ecosystem instead of letting all of PC gaming die.

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          1 year ago

          Yes? How can you possibly deny that? Steam was able to claw a market in russia, a country famous for piracy. Gaben was right, convenience with good prices trumps everything.

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          1 year ago

          Sure, cracks still exist, but I’ve stopped downloading them in favour of buying off Steam because the user experience was a lot better. I’m sure I can’t be the only one to do this.

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          1 year ago

          Before Steam existed i would even crack games I had legitimate copies of solely because pre-Steam DRM was such an enormous pain in the ass to deal with.

          Even today Denuvo is a veritable paradise compared to what DRM used to be like.