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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 32 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Steam being a US-based company kinda put a damper on my willingness to shell out the moolah for games I might not even play ...

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago

GOG is my go to. Still have a huge steam library from before but my future purchases are going there.

[–] original_reader@lemmy.zip 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

...and which you don't actually own.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 15 points 14 hours ago

TBH for me, between the sales and the Linux compatibility it's still worth it even if I'm effectively renting the games.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

What about the time they tried to implement paid mods with Bethesda?

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They've tried, they've listened, they've not gone forward with the implementation, apologized and refunded and everyone else moved on.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world -2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/SteamWorkshop/announcements/detail/208632365253244218

Except they didn't apologize and according to them adding paid mods was not a mistake, their mistake was starting with skyrim. I think it's funny how enamoured people are with steam to the point of misremembering what really happened.

Edit: love the downvotes, just proves how brainwashed steam fans are, just like nintendo fans.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 5 points 18 hours ago

That's not great, but it's not 'company thriving under a very literally fascist regime'-bad.