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Steam, last year I logged in via browser to check something, and it was showing I've not been online for 8 years.
Fuck Steam and this whole drm/application crap they normalised. Yes others are worse, but I'm not accepting it.
No offense but this is a bad take. They didn't normalize DRM. DRM was a thing before steam was around. And DRM companies like Denuvo are going to Game Devs and Publishers to sell them their DRM, not steam.
You're mad at the wrong company.
Well I mean this kind of online activation tied to a program kind of drm. This wasn't a thing before Steam outside of MMOGs.
I'm mad at the right company. It's just for some damn reason Valve is still heralded as the indie darling that made Half-Life, and not the monopolistic marketplace corporation that it's been for 10+ years.
I repeat: yes there are worse companies. That doesn't make Steam or Valve good.
While overall I agree with this, their work on advancing gaming on Linux makes it easy to look the other way.