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Before you could download licenses for everything you owned even without the game being installed. Now you must install a game first before you can get a license for it. This will have major implications for jail breaking.

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 month ago

    Steam Deck is not any closer to real ownership than Xbox or PlayStation. Video Games have had “non-ownership” clauses in their EULAs long before the Xbox or PlaysStation existed, sadly.

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 month ago

      Everyone on Lemmy either says one of two things when any console news is posted:

      • Build a Linux gaming rig!
      • Get a Steam Deck!

      On the second point, you are right. You are trading licensing games from Sony or MS to licensing games from Gabe and his yachts.