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Capcom's Steam Deck Verified Games are being made unplayable with new DRM that only punishes paying customers (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl -3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they're going to swing around, tell me I'm buying digital licenses and I can no longer do the legal things I used to do it's them who owe an explanation.

Got it. So you're not going to provide any explanation for your argument? Then we have nothing further to discuss.

I have no idea why you feel the need to shill so hard for these things

LOL I am not "shilling" anything. I am trying to have a logical discussion but you don't seem to be capable. And now since you're incapable you've resorted to personal attacks.

You're putting the onus on the customer and, as a customer I get to just say "no, screw you" and keep buying physical media instead.

and I don't have to like it because you say so.

By all means, please continue. I did not and would not suggest anything otherwise.

Writing off DRM as a whole is an incredibly selfish position. Digital media creators have the right to financially benefit from their creations.

Unfortunately many selfish people not only believe they have a right to any reproduce able form of media, but that have a responsibility to distribute said media to others. It's incredibly fucked up and I don't blame anyone who either adds DRM or refuses to spend their time creating it in the first place.

I will wholeheartedly agree that really shitty and invasive DRM that delivers an experience less than piracy is trash.

Good day.

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I make a living off of media creation and have for over twenty years, across multiple mediums and in different capacities. Some of the stuff I've worked on has been DRMd and some has not.

The financial benefit coming my way has not been dependent on DRM at any point to any extent I can discern. You want to impact "the right to financially benefit from their creations"? Fix the fact that companies can just hire a creator to work for hire and own all their output in perpetuity with no requirement for additional compensation and indeed no IP rights staying with the people doing the actual work.

If you're gonna high horse me with the morality of financially compensating creators you better be talking about the actual creators, not the corporations keeping the bulk of the revenue.