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They are merely trying to commoditize their complement https://gwern.net/complement https://gwern.net/complement Your games are still not owned by you, they ar
by sershe 10mo ago
They are merely trying to commoditize their complement https://gwern.net/complement https://gwern.net/complement
Your games are still not owned by you, they are locked inside your Steam account (liable to be suspended at any time) and app (as I've learned when I couldn't play when their pretend-but-not-really-offline mode broke; I now block it at firewall level most of the time). That part will never become "community" oriented.
- preisschild 10mo agoSteam Games can definitely be DRM free too. Its the developer/publishers choice.
- sershe 10mo agoCan you actually download these games like one can with GOG? As far as I can tell, even indie games require steam to run. DRM is also kind of orthogonal to their terms. Ubisoft has their own DRM; let's say I am ok with Ubisoft's since at least they made the game, would I be able to play Anno that I "purchased" on Steam if Valve suspends my Steam account for some random reason?
- blibble 10mo agoyes I copied FTL, and Into The Breach out of my steam directory to another machine and they work fine
- preisschild 10mo ago> Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG? To download and update Steam games you obviously need Steam, but once DRM free games are downloaded you can keep playing them without Steam. Heck, we even shared some drm-free games someone bought in my friends-group over a personal torrent among us, so we could play coop with each other to test the game out before we bought it ourselves.