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Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy! (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by kaptan@hackerz.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a very common and very reasonable request, and given the size of Turkey, I don't think they'd prefer to lose the whole market there instead of having a lawyer in the country to deal with local legal requests.

Only when it's companies run by manchildren, like X and Rumble, they go on the internet to cry about censorship and shit when they pikachu-face-discover they have to follow a country's laws to operate in that country.

ps: You are already not buying games when you pay for them on Steam.

edit: To people downvoting: are you also mad that Valve/Epic/PSN/etc has to follow GDPR data regulations for EU citizens and keep representatives there, or is sovereignty only bad when a non–first-world country dares to claim it?

[-] istdaslol@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago

Im pretty sure their happy to loose turkey. For years keystores have abused the worthless lira to buy cheap steam games and resell them for a massive markup and steam doesn’t get any cut and miss out on a more lucrative sale

[-] skoell13@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Because of that they switched to USD one or two years ago, which made it impossible to afford games for a lot of people.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

ps: You are already not buying games when you pay for them on Steam.

True, use GOG.

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

You also arnt buying games when you pay for them on steam...

Both steam and gog are drm free.

Both have the EXACT same licences for their drm free games.

Gog even has their galaxy API wall just the same as valve as the steam works one locking you to an account.

And both are optional.

Steam DRM and GOG DRM are also optional so if it exists it's developer choice. Cause GOG does actually sell games with fucking drm and have for years. They arnt ONLY drm free they stopped being 100% strict about that a while ago.

Literally they are identical. Really the only difference is you need steam client or steam cmd to down load a game both require a steam login. Or you go to gog website or their client both of which require a gog login...

It's the same shit.

Steam just also has triple A games with third party drm too that isn't optional. Which makes up like 1% of the games on steam at this point.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

OK, sure. If Valve bans you, how are you going to install your games?

I know that on GOG I can download the installer, back it up, share it with friends and family, and they can install it. Do the same with Steam.

And finally, Valve is a USAian company. GOG is European. That is pretty important.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To people downvoting: are you also mad that Valve/Epic/PSN/etc have to follow GDPR data regulations for EU citizens and keep representatives there, or is sovereignty only bad when a non–first-world country dares to claim it?