• yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    And when they firsy came out they pissed off a LOT of people (including me) when they’d sell physical videogame cases with a piece of paper inside it with the key for downloading. I felt tricked when I bought games that were like this.

    • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There was an option, and some companies did ship a disc with the installation files. Obviously the license was tied to the Steam account and not to the disc, but if companies weren’t shipping the disc with the license, that’s their fault for cheaping out, not Steam.

      • yaroto98@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You’re probably right, but as a consumer all I saw was “LOL no disk for you, download game via steam.” And blamed steam.