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Other portable console makers: proprietary shit, locked down OSes, DRM embedded in the device at boot, custom/strange architectural choices, walled gardens
Valve: eh, put a fuckin’ normal ass gaming PC in a tiny box with joysticks and call it a day.
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No, it’s great. It means you can make it do anything. You misconstrue my meaning.
You don’t even have it game on it if you don’t want to. Use it as a server 😂
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They’re focused entirely on the shitty practices those other manufacturers engaged in. In that regard, Valve didn’t do much (and that’s a good thing).
Steam is proprietary
Yeah but with Steam Deck you’re not forced to use it. It’s an unlocked x86-64 compatible handheld PC. Install whatever you want.
What
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I mean I give my money to Valve as is tradition, but is there some new reason to give from today?
Because every day their investments in open source projects are making our ecosystem better?
Fine. I’m gonna go give them more money.
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Steam is a proprietary app store shipping DRM and proprietary software. I can’t say I’m eager to use it
If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.
They don’t force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don’t lock down their hardware.
What I’m trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it’s much better than any big tech alternative.
devs can ship games on steam without drm, it’s not valve that mandates it. ksp doesn’t have drm for example
Proton is open source
But not steam itself
I’m saving up $1/day for the Steam Deck 2. Got $253 so far.
Valve is not your friend
Youtube journalism is such a joke. Sunnyv2 started this shit and now it’s a whole genre if “homemade documentaries”.
Kid named “very few big publishers would ever sell on steam if the games weren’t licensed” and their twin sibling “that model would be incompatible with a large number of games anyway”
