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Microsoft is not buying Valve and Counter-Strike for £12 billion (metro.co.uk)
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[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

If Microsoft bought Valve I'd probably never buy a PC game again. Because all the companies selling them would be companies I don't wanna give money.

What about itch?

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 8 points 5 months ago

And GoG

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago

GOG is a subsidiary of CD Projekt (which I personally don't trust after the disastrous release of Cyberpunk 2077, and the empty promises of bringing GOG Galaxy to Linux; they also stretch the definition of DRM-free in some cases).

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 2 points 5 months ago

Well, steam isn't even remotely DRM free. Valve is also far from flawless (allowing TF2 to be ran by hackers for literal years) and run by a multi billionaire. But sure, cyberpunk was unoptimized.

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Ok? I didn't claim anything about Steam

[-] Summzashi@lemmy.one 2 points 5 months ago

Uhh this thread is about alternatives to Steam, so..

[-] dsemy@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I was trying to say GOG isn't comparable to Itch...

Edit: Btw I buy games from all 3, if I didn't do business with every company I don't trust I'd probably starve by now

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