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> You don't own your games on steam On Steam at least games don't depend on Steam for network play, nor do they depend on Steam's existence for them to work.
by mlindner 4y ago
> You don't own your games on steam
On Steam at least games don't depend on Steam for network play, nor do they depend on Steam's existence for them to work.
- remram 4y agoThey really do though. You can't start most games without Steam running, unless you replace the Steam DLL that those games link against (but that is considered "cracking"). They is a fraction of Steam games that don't integrate with Steam in any way and therefore can be started by running their binary, but in my experience that is not most games.
- autoexec 4y agoEven offline mode stops working if Steam goes long enough without being able to phone home. Your games will not function without Steam
- mlindner 4y agoThat's not true. There's no feature of offline mode that requires it to phone home every so often. It works indefinitely.