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It's a host DRM, and many games also integrate with steamworks, making it an embedded DRM that can prevent your games from launching without a connection even i
by viridian 4y ago
It's a host DRM, and many games also integrate with steamworks, making it an embedded DRM that can prevent your games from launching without a connection even if they otherwise wouldn't need one. As others have said, this is inferior to both GOG, and physical media, except a large percentage of physical media now also does not function without the aid of online DRM.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoinferior to digital media my ass, DRM on digital media hosing my linux partition is what pushed me to exclusively use steam and gog.
- ThunderSizzle 4y agoI'd say the cd key and cd check of physical media is more anti-consumer than Steam. Of course there were third party patches to remove the cd check, but that's no different than making a way around steam drm.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThe DRM built into steam is pretty purposely nerfed. Supposedly it is trivial to bypass, which is why many game companies put 3rd party DRM in as well. If valve dies tomorrow, it will be way easier to revive most of my steam library than anything on origin or EA whatever-its-called-this-week. They also just have like 20 years of clear results, consumer non-hostility, and goodwill
- HelloMcFly 4y agoI get it, I understand, but I like the product they've given and I like that it continues to improve.