this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
259 points (97.8% liked)

Games

16808 readers
881 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 37 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

This is revisionist history. Steam was not the origination of DRM or even online DRM.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

He didn't say valve created DRM he said that steam pioneered it. Don't revision people comments.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

That's what pioneered means.

[–] sep@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Had to google "pinoneered", but it say: "developed or be the first to use or apply" and i do not think valve did either.
They have an easy way for developers to implemet drm by require steam services tho.
But in my opinion it is better there are few well understood methods instead of a million uniqe ones. Incase there is a world this have to be reverse engeneered.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

I used pioneered because it has the context of one of many.

A pioneer is the name you give to people who go out and explore new things.

Apple was a pioneer in home computers. That doesn't mean they invented the first home computer. It means they were one of the first.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 35 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I remember, buy game. Enter CD key "key already taken" Return game "sorry, box is open we don't take media returns" Rage.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 hours ago

I remember taping over the square hole.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago

"Actually this disc is defective. I'd like to exchange it for a new one."

This trick will be useful if you ever go back to 1999.