Thread 725306786

You don't own your Steam games

>a meteor annihilates your house
>"BUT I OWNED THOSE GAMES"

>>725306786 (OP)
Yeah we know it says it right there on the checkout page

>>725306786 (OP)
pretty sure I clicked Install, played the game and got 100% completion rate
good enough for me

>>725306786 (OP)
>open game folder
>copy
>paste elsewhere
>replace steam_api.dll with goldenberg's dll
>game just works without steam

>>725306786 (OP)
based OP keep the good work, consolechads won

>>725306786 (OP)
>You don't own your Steam games
Technically I don't even own the land my house is on, which means I don't even really own the house and the governent could in theory throw me in prison for whatever they fucking feel like with the stroke of a pen.

Now i'm not saying Steam isn't scummy and you shouldn't pirate everything anyway, but if you think you "own" anything in the this world, boy are you mistaken and Steam is the least of your fucking problems.

>>725306786 (OP)
Okay?
GOG is the closest to game "ownership" for digital games otherwise it's the same shit for any digital game.

>>725306786 (OP)
>open /v/
>same thread again
>same autists replying
I think you homosexuals should get new material

>>725306786 (OP)
Said it in the other thread, will say it in this thread: Physicalfags are delusional, games were already just licenses when they were on cartridges, they just had no reasonable way to revoke them.
If publishers were still doing mostly physical sales for games, then every game would have a 16 digit online activation code, and if you can't online verify (because you have no code, or the server is offline) you won't be able to play. We were already heading that way before digital took over. Game publishers would not give their digital rights nonsense up.
It's also worth pointing out for the "you will own nothing" fags: Steam has a history of not taking anything away from the user ever. Devs can requests access to be revoked, but valve itself, no matter what you do, has never taken anyones games away and likely never will as long as gabe still has something to say.

>>725306786 (OP)
I don't own anything, because I am a mere mortal loaning this life from God.

steamworks """DRM""" is the biggest boon to pirates and people who just want to backup their games. shill more faggot

>>725306786 (OP)
>Buy a game on gog
>Read eula
>Actually you don't own the game you just bought a license
Amazing.

Nobody in america owns shit because of jewish laws. Valve is operating in the most pro consumer way possible under these conditions.

>>725307670
ONLY Nintendo consoles, and specifically games that don't use key cards, can say they have any sort of ownership.

If you buy a disk, but the full game isn't on the disk, you are in the same boat.

>THIS
>THREAD
>AGAIN

>>725307712
Your own the will to take your own life, that's about it.

>>725307787
/v/ is a rougelike board

You don't own your Epic Games Store games.
Uh oh, now you have to try this thread again later and hope I don't see it.

Is this some kind of trick since we're going to die in an alien invasion soon? You want me to be attached dearly to every earthly possession so I stay stuck in this loosh farm? Go fuck yourself fruitbowl.

>>725307846
>"Removes the middle man"
I know this is in reference towards Google and Apple in which they were prepared to be kicked off and start a lawsuit (these documents are real and came from discovery). But it was really awkward to mention Steam here when Steam is just as much as a middle-man as they are.
Reminder that Epic is a proxy for Tencent and in Asian markets it is actually normal for digital stores to take a 50% cut. So when Steam goes to shit about GabeN is gone I kinda want Epic to win only to do a bait and switch to not just 30%, but the Asian standard of 50%, because the drama and memes would be amazing.

>>725307824
You're right that digital versus "physical" doesn't matter. But having to agree to a EULA without reading it versus someone handing you a game and saying "here you go" doesn't matter either. Expectations of what the distributor may or may not do especially doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what they can enforce. Case in point:
>>725307852
I'm not even going to check if this is true because it literally doesn't matter. Maybe the EULA literally says GOG can revoke your game licenses, or maybe it just says some nothingburger shit like you don't have the right to make copies for your friends. It doesn't matter. Because if there's no DRM then nothing can be enforced. For all intents and purposes, the license for a GOG game is "here you go". Because there is no mechanism by which they can take away my copy of Brigador or whatever. All they can do is revoke my ability to download a game again, which I don't need if I already downloaded it and kept my finger off the delete key. Sure, I could lose the copy I downloaded, but I could also break a cartridge or a disc.

>>725306786 (OP)
2003 called. They want their ragebait back.

>>725307574
Chat is this true?

>>725307574
damn those are some long ass tits lmao

>>725307846
>"Epic has proven a better model exists"
Are they serious right now?

>>725306786 (OP)
You also don't own Windows. In fact, when PC still sold physical copies of shit, the discs would come in a paper envelope. If you broke the seal, you were agreeing to the TOS written on the envelope that said ... that's right ... you don't own shit.

I have $1800 in my steam wallet from a bot running on a raspberry pi which buys and sells shit on the marketplace for me that makes about $10-40 a month completely passively.
I don't give a fuck about game ownership.

>>725306786 (OP)
oh no! if i ever truly experience “service gone, game & money stolen” i’ll just pirate a copy.

>>725311003
Zoomers aren't aware that if you removed the plastic film for any PC software you couldn't even return it.

>>725307968
Nintendo is perfectly capable of disabling game cards. They do that all the time for pirated games. As long as a company is able to disable your game, you don't own that game. This leaves either GoG, Steam, or piracy as the only options.

>>725311009
>I have $1800 in my steam wallet from a bot running on a raspberry pi which buys and sells shit on the marketplace for me that makes about $10-40 a month completely passively.
No you don't.

Who is actually going to kick down my door to take my hard drives with my gog installers?

>>725306786 (OP)
not an issue if you know what you're doing.
anyway, i really like steam. i hope it doesn't go to shit when gayben steps down/dies. the app is a pleasure to use and makes buying, playing and organizing games so convenient.
>>725308926
kek, good analogy

If I'm done with a physical game I can sell it. Try selling your steam library, see what that shit is worth lol

>>725307574
@grok is this post telling the truth?

>>725306786 (OP)
You don't own anything, really.

>>725306786 (OP)
still using steam though

>>725312719
That's nice buddy, how often do you actually do that? And what percentage of your initial spending do you get back?

>>725306786 (OP)
True, but I'm still not gonna use EGS sorry.

>>725311687
Cope

>>725306786 (OP)
You don't own anything on Steam, not even your profile or achievements. The shit you "buy" there is rented through a license, if they revoke the license, you don't have a game.

>>725306786 (OP)
You don't legally own your physical copies either.
You have a disk that will deteriorate.
I have files that are uploaded in a million places on the internet even if steam disappears overnight.