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I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years


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I was irritated when Half-Life 2 shipped on PC and required a dedicated piece of software to satisfy DRM and patch the game, but at the time these were minor inconveniences. In lieu of even the simplest commitment by Valve to keep their DRM client free of system requirement creep, business models like Ubisoft+, EA Access and Game Pass represent far greater value to consumers. A game with zero online features is subject to internet-based DRM and constantly increasing system requirements when the store self-updates and irreversibly patches the software in your library.

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