"Why I Deleted My Steam Account After 20 Years"
844I can't tell if Special K developer Kaldaien is okay or not. He just deleted his 20 year old Steam account which, presumably had thousands of dollars worth of games attached to it. Frankly, he can do whatever he wants, but his rationale seems a bit... suspect...
Read his original post here: https://gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad
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-- Chapters --
00:00 Introduction
01:08 "Why I deleted my Steam Account after 20 years"
02:15 "Steam's DRM scheme has reached end-of-life without the promised parachute"
04:17 There are many games on Steam with zero DRM
05:34 He has a point: You should be able to revert to older versions of games on Steam
06:40 "The proliferation of Steam for content distribution has fragmented PC gaming irreparably"
09:06 "I was a Steamworks partner and had access to developer forums"
12:49 GOG Games, Heroic, and LInux
14:33 "Enter Monthly Subscription Game Libraries"
15:56 Rental services are a psyops campaign to ensure your grandkids don't understand the concept of ownership
17:32 Why I refuse to use the term "consumer"
19:47 GOG is awesome
20:41 "The Lies of Valve"
21:55 "The biggest obstacle to game ownership on PC is the store you licensed it from"
24:47 "Valve is right about piracy being a service issue. Their service inevitably requires it"