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As always, the paying user has the worst experience. "Purchase" a show, can only watch on a certain console of a certain brand, no transfers, no backups, then it suddenly disappears from the library and nothing can be done.

If media companies insist on draconian DRM, then they should pay for full refunds to their loyal customers when one day they decide to delist that specific show.

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[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Steam is the same. It's just a license to play the game. GOG is better in this regard.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kinda, but its not black and white. For a start steam has a much longer track record of nearly 20 years not doing this, I've heard of them de-listing games and not allowing them to be sold any more but never of revoking games that have been sold. Secondly there are many games on steam that stream cant just revoke, games that use no DRM or DRM that isnt integrated into steamworks they cant just delete if you back it up.

But that being said there is the possibility of something like this happening on steam, which is why I'm glad there is still an active game piracy scene even if I dont use it any more.

[-] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

How do you back up a drm free steam game on steam deck?

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I dont have one, but I'm pretty sure you can drop to a desktop that you can do whatever you want with the files on the system just like any other linux distro.

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