I don’t use Spotify because I don’t believe in ads or paying money for things that are relatively easy to get. Im also not into music, which means my NEED to get anything is pretty low.
Where gaming, Steam is a platform. One could argue the ads are in the store page or all the sales. But there’s still a huge pirate community. There’s still GoG. All the other drm platforms are miniscule so not going to talk about them.
Where Steam is different is that shit just works on Steam. I can download a game from 2005, install, and I’m at the title screen. If I pirate, I have to do a handful of things to get to the title screen. Same with GoG. My Steamdeck is amazing! I’ve been actually rethinking building PCs in favor of just getting new Steam Decks.
This is where I’m conflicted.
I don’t use Spotify because I don’t believe in ads or paying money for things that are relatively easy to get. Im also not into music, which means my NEED to get anything is pretty low.
Where gaming, Steam is a platform. One could argue the ads are in the store page or all the sales. But there’s still a huge pirate community. There’s still GoG. All the other drm platforms are miniscule so not going to talk about them.
Where Steam is different is that shit just works on Steam. I can download a game from 2005, install, and I’m at the title screen. If I pirate, I have to do a handful of things to get to the title screen. Same with GoG. My Steamdeck is amazing! I’ve been actually rethinking building PCs in favor of just getting new Steam Decks.