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One major upside for publishers in steam is DRM which epic won't offer.
by vtesucks 8y ago
One major upside for publishers in steam is DRM which epic won't offer.
- Flammy 8y agoAt this point, it is just features... Unless Epic has something against DRM? Sucks that games on Epic don't (yet?) have cloud save/item store/gifting/whatever but Epic can copy if they want to.
- mtgx 8y agoWhy? Steam DRM gets cracked all the time.
- jsmith45 8y agoRight. Back in the day when CS:Source was still one of the main games played on steam, whenever they released a new single player game, the limiting factor for how long until it was on the pirate forums was how long it took to write up the forum post. The Steam DRM itself was generally cracked at all times. I've not kept track, but I'd not be shocked if this was pretty much still the case. It would certainly explain why so many games still have another layer of DRM when sold on steam.
- vtesucks 8y agoI was completely unaware. Thank you.
- beerlord 8y agoThe cracks are often where the malware is injected, and what is detected by Windows/AntiVirus. Without DRM your product can just be repackaged and resold, like what happened to the GoG version of Frostpunk being sold on Amazon. I would have liked some basic version of DRM as well. This will drive a lot of developers to Denuvo, which might be overkill.