r/Steam • u/Haunter777x • 13h ago

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How out of touch can you be as a company, this is embarrassing

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u/trollsong 13h ago

It feels like they are trying to market themselves to the weird AI Chud niche.

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u/essidus Future Beet Farmer? 13h ago

Not the first time. Back when Valve came out against NFTs, Sweeny also tried to make EGS the safe harbor for NFT games.

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u/trollsong 13h ago

One of my conspiracies is the whole NFT bored ape thing was a psyop to get people to hate the idea so it couldnt be used for digital ownership.

Sadly in hindsight NFT and blockchain tech could have paved the way for actual digital ownership of games. Not as some collector's piece just that each purchase of a digital game would have a built in code that means you could put it on a USB and trade it to others legally, even have a third market.

Seriously if you wanted to tank an idea like NFTs having jimmy Fallon advertise his bored ape would be the best way to make it unpopular fast.

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u/archangelzeriel 12h ago

As with the idea of NFTs allowing you to use the same asset in multiple games, I ask the simple question: "What incentive is there for a game developer to do this, instead of just using storefront-specific game keys?"

The devs that WOULD do this are already releasing DRM-free on GOG or whatever.

The set of gamedevs that would like to enable digital game resale/trade but who also want to have full-fledged DRM is essentially zero.