Author's Decision to Delete Steam Account After 20 Years
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Summary
The author shares their decision to delete their Steam account after 20 years due to issues with Steam and DRM requirements. They reflect on their long history with PC gaming and modding.
Key quotes
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My experience with PC gaming goes back a further two decades, to the days of shareware, dialing into a BBS to get game patches / user generated content and tedious DRM fetch-quests involving physical game manuals.
I was irritated when Half-Life 2 shipped on PC and required a dedicated piece of software to satisfy DRM and
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