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Rule of owning (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Afaik, Steam only sells licences.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (1 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] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

DRM is orthagonal to ownership

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

I do not disagree?