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You absolutely can, the DRM part of Steam is optional choice by the developer. It can just be a Game Downloader. You can even sell codes in your own store, WIT
by LinXitoW 4y ago
You absolutely can, the DRM part of Steam is optional choice by the developer. It can just be a Game Downloader.
You can even sell codes in your own store, WITHOUT STEAM GETTING MONEY. That's incredibly generous.
I don't understand why you would expect them to give away their features for free. That's like expecting a a restaurant letting you use their cutlery and tables with your own food.
Finally, you have never and will never truly own a game. No, not even when they came as CDs. It was always just a limited license.
- badsectoracula 4y ago> Finally, you have never and will never truly own a game. No, not even when they came as CDs. It was always just a limited license. This is a common red herring - nobody means owning the actual IP for a game when they mention owning physical games. They mean having control over when, where and how a game is played. Physical games give more control to the user, assuming DRM allowed that. (and the real issue is having DRM or not, not being physical vs digital - for example my physical DVD copy of Bioshock has some stupid DRM limitation whereas my GOG copy is fully DRM-free, giving me more control than the physical one)
- dmos62 4y agoDidn't know that about the DRM part of Steam being optional. > I don't understand why you would expect them to give away their features for free. Incentives? Won't comment to that. But, what I expect is that my services and tools don't constrain their interoperability. Open protocols are nothing new. Neither are closed platforms.