• Swordgeek ( swordgeek@lemmy.ca ) 
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    5 months ago

    Realistically, Steam is a monopoly.

    That’s not illegal. In fact, it’s not even (necessarily) a problem.

    If they misuse their monopoly position, then it becomes a problem.

    • dubyakay ( dubyakay@lemmy.ca ) 
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      5 months ago

      A very easy solution would be for Steam to transition to the GOG approach optionally: Preserve games without any sort of DRM or online-only feature. Releases past a set amount of time could drop DRM (they already have this option AFAIK) and they would also need to have a sort of non-steam-services connected variant.

      Combine this with completely FOSS SteamOS/Steam Client, and Valve would do everything right.