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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

The only issue is that Trump can cut you off from your steam library if his regime targets you with arbitrary sanctions.

[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That is bad but so far Players in sanctioned countries can still play on Steam, just not make purchases. Countries like Russia and Iran still have Steam players as long as their governments aren't blocking external internet.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

That reassures people!

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine if the vast majority of the world does not live in america haha

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

People use steam outside of the USA

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip -2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Valve corporation is an American company. America has used visa and mastercard to target ICC judges who also live outside the US. If the government wants they can try and strongarm Valve to do their bidding

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

for some time yes ... but when valva looses the world, and is left just with the us market ... they will change elegance real fast.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The federal government can prevent an American firm from serving a foreign customer.

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip -1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Sure. And we can simply download our games off off steam or any other web page and continue playing while that company decides to move off of that country to a normal country. There are solutions to everything.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I agree there are workarounds. But it would be a massive heartbreak to lose the game collection that took years to build.

[–] tixooo@lemmy.zip 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

yep, anything digital is not yours.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Anything digital with drm.