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I don’t disagree in principal but what exactly is the alternative? Playing SuperTuxKart and Pingus or some other open source games all the time? I hate the “se
by tombert 3y ago
I don’t disagree in principal but what exactly is the alternative? Playing SuperTuxKart and Pingus or some other open source games all the time? I hate the “service-ification” of everything, but I think it’s a near-monopoly that’s kind of hard to avoid.
There’s sites like GOG that give DRM-free versions of games, and I like GOG a lot, but it’s still fundamentally a proprietary service that could shut its doors down tomorrow. I know that I personally do not have all my GOG games backed up, and I am one of the rare people that has enough disk space to actually do that, so I doubt I am weird here.
- LightHugger 3y agolots of steam games have no drm
- Libcat99 3y agoThey require steam to be running, don't they? What happens if steam goes away?
- greeniskool 3y agoIt's trivial to bypass that check using a Steam "emulator"
- pxc 3y agoThat's not the same as not having DRM
- fomine3 3y agoIt's like a game only runs on Windows, but also run on Wine
- Libcat99 3y agoThere also often software to strip the drm out of direct purchase games. The existence of drm removal tools does not make a product drm free, in the same way ms office isn't open source if you steal the source code.
- ihuman 3y agoA lot of games on Steam can run without running Steam
- HideousKojima 3y agoSeveral run completely fine without Steam running (or even installed)
- LightHugger 3y agoNope. Adding the "steam has to be running" check is an optional step the game developer performs before they upload their game to steam. The dev can go out of their way to wrap their .exe in the steam DRM. If the dev does not do this, there is no steam DRM. lots of games dont use it, remember kenshi as an example.