>Steam is DRM. That is a common mischaracterization of Steam but it is technically incorrect. Steam itself is the distribution platform (authentication/paymen

>Steam is DRM. That is a common mischaracterization of Steam but it is technically incorrect. Steam itself is the distribution platform (authentication/payment system and package manager). It can be used to deliver both DRMed and DRM-free content [1]. Valve's own DRM (called "Custom Executable Generation" or "CEG" for short) is part of the Steamworks framework; many games published on Steam do use CEG and some games also include third-party DRM on top of or instead of it [3] but it is not mandatory to use CEG for your game for it to be published on Steam. Now, you could argue that Steam encourages the use of DRM but that's a rather different discussion. [1] http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/page1 http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_st... [2] http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/ http://www.steampowered.com/steamworks/ [3] http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_on_Steam http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_o...