For a lot of games, yes. They provide the infrastructure for communication and connection.
Its why you can, for example, send an invite in AOE via the in-game system or the steam system.
Its why so many games show your steam name and avatar in the multiplayer menus.
You surprised to hear this?
Good point. Steam provides a lot of the same multiplayer services and match making and they’ve never cost me a penny.
Regardless of the box cost, there’s no arguing with the price of games in a Steam sale!
I don’t think I’ve paid more than £15 for a game in years and years.
Looking at that girl I assume it’ll mostly come out in 2026. Mostly.
That’s an important and insightful point to make.
Would you like help with processing further into the enshitification of conversation?
Grindr has retail locations in America?
WTF are they selling?
But can it run Doom without installing steam?
Will the dog understand Cantonese?
Checkout the custom settings for Ixion.
Its exactly what they’re asking for, and it works well
Increasingly seeing this in games, and I love it.
Including like little Spanners to fix it and big spanners to hit it?
Fair enough. It makes sense it exists in different degrees
Happens on Lemmy too.
Probably all social media.
But does it have a crazy price?
I’m getting “cake or death” vibes
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
I live without adverts in my life.
I have no subscription services.
When a service stops being useful I switch.
Aside from my steam library, I own everything I own. I don’t find this difficult. I’m not missing out, I enjoy films, TV, games, friends, work and life generally.
My personal choices have made a massive difference to my experiences, if I compare them to the ones I see people talking about on Lemmy.
Fair enough. If they’re cash poor, grabbing one of those cheap games consoles is a good plan. 😟