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Rule of owning (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

I hope we don't get expiration dates now...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

new law

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Did California's new law requiring this already go into effect?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago

January 1 2025, guess Steam preferred not waiting in this case

[–] [email protected] 85 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This was always the case, just stated explicitly now

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Its pretty much up to the developer. You can have no DRM and not even require steam to be open, or you can make your game unplayable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Afaik, Steam only sells licences.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Steam sells DRM-free games too, you can download them and then uninstall Steam and they will work. In this case though, on top of purchasing the game, you are buying a license to download updates for it through Steam. It's a developer decision.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

DRM is orthagonal to ownership

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[–] [email protected] 211 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I appreciate the transparency tbh. Would be better if things were different but it is what it is for now.

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