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  • Them being portable makes them actually useful though for me, unless there was a way to use them from a phone to login to a website on a desktop/other device.

    Being able to login into a password manager and use a passkey is great, passkeys need to become mainstream to get everyone away from passwords, but they can’t be locked locally onto one platform or you have issues. The regular joe won’t be backing them up from their iPhones or whatever.

    I don’t see why a local option wouldn’t exist though, perhaps they will come once passkeys have matured further.


  • Well that’s just digital goods, not Steam specifically.

    You do get all the files for the game, that will work for as long as the OS will run them, with or without Steam (this is as close as you can come to ownership for software). Rather than a license to use them files, which become useless if you don’t run the game through Steam.



  • warm@kbin.earthto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule of owning
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    Steam sells DRM-free games too, you can download them and then uninstall Steam and they will work. In this case though, on top of purchasing the game, you are buying a license to download updates for it through Steam. It’s a developer decision.