• Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
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    10 days ago

    Fully agree with your point, but to be fair Steam sucked balls in the OG Counter Strike days. It was dretchingly slow, buggy and nobody wanted to use it. So other stores sucking balls in the beginning by being buggy is not that strange. Although all the anti-consumer stuff is not bad programming, just bad morals.

    • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      And when they firsy came out they pissed off a LOT of people (including me) when they’d sell physical videogame cases with a piece of paper inside it with the key for downloading. I felt tricked when I bought games that were like this.

      • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 days ago

        There was an option, and some companies did ship a disc with the installation files. Obviously the license was tied to the Steam account and not to the disc, but if companies weren’t shipping the disc with the license, that’s their fault for cheaping out, not Steam.

        • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 days ago

          You’re probably right, but as a consumer all I saw was “LOL no disk for you, download game via steam.” And blamed steam.