[londons_explore]

> Gamers literally rush to defend the platform

Could also be an effective paid PR team. Just because 'everyone' on the internet appears to have one opinion doesn't mean it's real.

[iamacyborg]

Sure, but in this case the noise was loud enough and widespread enough that I suspect it wasn’t.

[pjerem]

Everyone also have a good opinion on Steam IRL around me .

In my case I’m seating between two chairs. Steam is a good product, they have mostly respectable policies and I’m happy to "do business" with them but I can’t really forget that their DRM is everywhere, that I don’t own my games and that, say, Google also used to "not be evil".

I love Steam today but what will happen of my games collection when Valve’s infinite money printing machine will start to fail ?

[kentm]

This is why I generally tried to support physical games that are playable on release. But that is a losing battle. It’s still likely that I can drop in a brand new PS5 or Switch game and play it with no network connection, but I expect that to rapidly change in the next five years.

This is pretty much not possible on PC anymore outside of outliers.