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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps
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>"Being a healthy company means having healthy results." But he adds that money won't be the main motivating factor, and instead the focus is to "do a good job, have good products and good services, and then as a consequence and as a reward comes good money." It's a point that he thinks is obvious, "but many companies fall apart on that, putting the spreadsheets first." Such a refreshing take.It always is in the beginning ~~Don't be evil~~
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GOG needs to fix their client first and port it on Linux. Yes, Heroic is a thing but we do need better handheld compatibility anyway and Linux users, I think, are more likely to be invested in GOG mission.Theres a reason steam is king... noone else bother putting games on linux, so valve brought linux to the games.
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It always is in the beginning ~~Don't be evil~~We got enough bad shit and greed in the world. I'll celebrate good things when I see them.
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Theres a reason steam is king... noone else bother putting games on linux, so valve brought linux to the games.
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Yeah for external DRM, but if a game has Steam DRM, then there's no official label or warning. For example, Witcher 3 is DRM-free on Steam, but there's nothing (AFAIK) on the Steam page saying that.
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maybe they didnt add it cause "The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users." [Source](https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management_(DRM))
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We got enough bad shit and greed in the world. I'll celebrate good things when I see them.
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Or, you could say Valve took the work of thousand of open-source dev and saw an opportunity to turn it into profit. I'm not saying they didn't contribute, but the only reason is because they saw a opportunity to make money, they don't care about Linux.They absolutely do care about linux... sure, they are profit motivated. But they saw microsoft building their own store, and they saw a future where MS builds a gated garden, and linux was a way for them to preserve their existence.
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I mean, that's the only issue. I put Steam on my Gentoo. Because it works, and I get 0 hassle gaming experience. Guess who gets my money?
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maybe they didnt add it cause "The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users." [Source](https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_Rights_Management_(DRM))
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Extremely casual piracy? I suppose fair point. But now what does each step in the scale mean then. For example what is extreme professional piracy or something.
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They absolutely do care about linux... sure, they are profit motivated. But they saw microsoft building their own store, and they saw a future where MS builds a gated garden, and linux was a way for them to preserve their existence.I can't understand the amount of energy people spend defending Valve. I get it, you like video games (so do I) and steam is a convenient platform for transactions. But, in the end it's just another dirty capitalist business that only cares about one thing: MAKING MONEY. They literally invented gambling for kids, got watch the coffeezila video about it and they take 30% of any game sold while having sub 300 employees. It's pretty much the most profitable business per employee in the US. They do not care about video games, about linux, about the fact that their home country is turning into a fascist state, and most of all, they don't give a fuck about all the gamers that keeps posting about how great they are. They would change they business model to sell bbq sauce tomorrow if the believe they could make more money out of it. And each time someone points that out, even here, it gets downvoted lol.
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I can't understand the amount of energy people spend defending Valve. I get it, you like video games (so do I) and steam is a convenient platform for transactions. But, in the end it's just another dirty capitalist business that only cares about one thing: MAKING MONEY. They literally invented gambling for kids, got watch the coffeezila video about it and they take 30% of any game sold while having sub 300 employees. It's pretty much the most profitable business per employee in the US. They do not care about video games, about linux, about the fact that their home country is turning into a fascist state, and most of all, they don't give a fuck about all the gamers that keeps posting about how great they are. They would change they business model to sell bbq sauce tomorrow if the believe they could make more money out of it. And each time someone points that out, even here, it gets downvoted lol.Linux is where it is because companies that care about making money contribute money to make it better. The same goes for projects like Blender. Linux became immensely more usable for the average user because Valve wanted to ensure that they'll be able to continue making absurd amounts of money in the future regardless of what Microsoft decides to do. The licensing of open source software ensures us that we don't even have to trust them to not pivot to BBQ sauce tomorrow, because the work they've already done will continue to serve us. I personally have no problem with a profit motive on its face, and the above is why. If you want an easy underhand toss for something to criticize Valve for, it's that their motive for profit encourages them to continue to exploit a loophole in our gambling laws to create a generation of underage addicts. They can simultaneously be the company responsible for breaking down walled gardens and creating a better personal computing tomorrow; and also the company profiting off of child gambling addiction that governments are too slow or too unwilling to do anything about.
