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[–] HouseWolf@lemm.ee 70 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna hope it's a troll.

But some people are really weird about "owning" games. The other day I was in a call with someone who spend hours hunting through dodgy key selling sites to buy a delisted Steam game at nearly twice the price...

And yes I told them where else they could get it but they cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

even if it's not. There's just a severe lack of thinking skills here. What do they think happens to the pirate copies people already downloaded will happen when drm is added to the store version? There's a reason we keep saying DRM only punish legitimate customers.

Clearly these kind of people have relinquished their ability to think and let ads do the thinking for them.