I’m very much in agreement. Whatever good they have done for the linux community doesn’t make them good. Also crucially, many of the things they’ve done to make games run better, aren’t things they can take away or that they have exclusivity of. Like their contributions to Wine. It means if you use Wine to play games on Linux you get the benefit without needing to use Steam or support Valve. They’re giving it away, they can’t take it back or ban you from it it. It was a charity donation.
But just like donating to charity hasn’t made MrBeast not an evil, greedy, manipualtive person, Valve’s generosity doesn’t make the bad things they’ve done and continue to do okay or excusable.
bs drm locks that dont let me play games without launching the app.
Just want to make people aware, there are DLL patches and Steam Emulators that allow running games without Steam. I just want people to be aware of this because I hear people talking about Steamworks DRM like it’s some bane to preservation, when it’s not. Not even close.
I’m very much in agreement. Whatever good they have done for the linux community doesn’t make them good. Also crucially, many of the things they’ve done to make games run better, aren’t things they can take away or that they have exclusivity of. Like their contributions to Wine. It means if you use Wine to play games on Linux you get the benefit without needing to use Steam or support Valve. They’re giving it away, they can’t take it back or ban you from it it. It was a charity donation.
But just like donating to charity hasn’t made MrBeast not an evil, greedy, manipualtive person, Valve’s generosity doesn’t make the bad things they’ve done and continue to do okay or excusable.
Just want to make people aware, there are DLL patches and Steam Emulators that allow running games without Steam. I just want people to be aware of this because I hear people talking about Steamworks DRM like it’s some bane to preservation, when it’s not. Not even close.