This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game’s quality.
Advice:
buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
Looks at list… oh neat I’m already doing this. Thanks indi games and GOG/steam sale
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Steam sells you a license. You don’t own the game. You own a license to access that game from Steam.
Yes, yet they do respect that licence and customers… so far, we trust them mostly.
Once day, Steam may be gone from market, replace by another service, who knows, and our libraries be gone by turning servers down - there is a possibility. But I struggle to imagine Steam would delet a game from my purchases without refunds and without any really serious reason, like few others do.
Didn’t they have a system that makes all games DRM free if something like that happenned or somwthing like that?
That’s how all software, except Free Software, works. Most media as well (except copyleft).
The game is downloaded and installed on your machine.
It also is from the other vendors, other wise you could not play offline games aside from all games being very slow probs. They have DRM, you cannot play most games without a launcher (there are some games, most of my steam library is mostly DRM free but maybe cuz they were indie games) unless you crack it.
And requires authentication via Steam to launch. No steam, no game.
At least not unless third parties come up with a workaround.
There are many DRM free games on Steam that don’t require the Steam client to run once downloaded
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw
Watch, learn.