>>720171108
>PC gamers were fools to trade their game ownership away for the convenience of a storefront with social interaction.
before steam all you were actually buying was a license to play the game, which was your CD Key.
Some games even limited the amount of times you could use the CD Key before it would be disabled and you would have to purchase the game again to be able to install it to a new system.
Its not like DRM wasn't a thing before steam, its just that everyone was doing their own weird shit and a lot of it fucking sucked, and if steam wasn't around I wouldn't be shocked if a lot of PC games these days were unplayable because the jank ass DRM systems they had in place don't work anymore.