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[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Steamdeck already has this experience for free ๐Ÿ™ˆ

[โ€“] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Steam is not free. Steam is 30% cut to businesses.

Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft offload their costs via yearly subscription costs as well as developers paying a protection fee to launch on their platform. Steam just has the highest protection money scheme. You wouldn't want anything to happen to the games you're publishing through them, would you?

[โ€“] Leg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Critical_Thinker@lemm.ee 1 points 46 minutes ago

It's the year 20X6.

I, his inheritor, am sorry to inform you that GabeN has passed. I've realized that I want an even larger pile of money, and it's come to my attention that you aren't paying for us to maintain your account.

You have 30 days to download your content or subscribe to Steam Plus at a cheap $X9.99/mo to avoid account deletion.