The only 3 platforms that receive my money are Bandcamp, Itch.io and Steam.
The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint.
I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their fair share of damage in eroding what it means to own digital goods.
I also bought https://everycircuit.com/ because halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers :(
Not much story. The wasm binary crahsed wabt (lol) so after getting frustrated with the state of the chromium tooling for wasm, I switched to messing with the android build.
That one was super easy to deal with because it had symbols. Judging by the license routines, they initally intended it to be a subscription service, only to give it an actually fair price down the road ($15). Seeing the username of the dev in the build metadata also made me feel a bit bad for him.
The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint.
I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their fair share of damage in eroding what it means to own digital goods.
I also bought https://everycircuit.com/ because halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers :(
I unapologetically pirate everything else.