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Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by rhizome on Thursday April 30, 2020 @02:35PM (#23034394)
>The last 20 years of PC gaming has been one of theft and grand larceny by steam, valve, EA and co. We used to get dedicated servers and level editors in games.

We used to have to deposit a quarter every time our character died, and with zero save points.

Re:The Anti-Amazon Alliance by som33 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:38PM (#23035174)
Trying to conflate arcade games with games you software you buy are non comparable, trying to justify theft of software when the population clearly doesn't want drm or authoritarian software as a service models.

Steam would have never got off the ground in 2004 if we had portal technology, man would have gotten killed.