Hey everyone! I noticed that the discussions around the recently released self-hosted alternative to Steam and Origin, have been focused on its controversial name. Let’s shift the conversation and talk about the features you would like to see or wouldn’t care about in this software.
drm free isn’t really something you can guarantee unless you’re fine with some games simply not being available on your platform. Some devs insist on it, and if you require drm free, they won’t sell on your platform.
Personally, I prefer drm free, but if a platform only has it, and the game I want thus isn’t there, I won’t use it.
cloud saves is nice, but with decentralized solution that gets harder to do. who is “the cloud”?
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Remote mounting of storage and being able to run games directly from the remote server would save a lot on local storage space.
How remote? Like inside my own network or across the internet?
The latter
Bandwidth to storage is going to become more and more important so I’m not keen on that.
It would be an optional feature.
drm free isn’t really something you can guarantee unless you’re fine with some games simply not being available on your platform. Some devs insist on it, and if you require drm free, they won’t sell on your platform.
Personally, I prefer drm free, but if a platform only has it, and the game I want thus isn’t there, I won’t use it.
cloud saves is nice, but with decentralized solution that gets harder to do. who is “the cloud”?