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Modder behind the 'Swiss army knife of PC gaming' deletes their 20 year-old Steam account with anti-Valve manifesto: 'By the end of my bitter dealings with Valve… there was zero hope' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here's the actual source, I don't think the article really adds anything

https://gist.github.com/Kaldaien/c66bf3dca62a5ac63785714f686e60ad

Enter Monthly Subscription Game Libraries and DRM-free → Exit Steam

I strongly disagree with this paragraph, as we saw with Netflix and video streaming monthly subscriptions are a trap which allows a massive increase tot he cost to the consumer and a noticeable drop in the quality of the content in a way steams model simply does not.