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Almost assuredly not, since their DRM is a big part of their platform. They may include pieces of it, though.
by cheald 13y ago
Almost assuredly not, since their DRM is a big part of their platform. They may include pieces of it, though.
- jmcqk6 13y agoIsn't most of their DRM encryption based? I mean, it's not all that restrictive, and it's quite possible that simply seeing the code for the DRM would not be enough to circumvent it. I think other companies would have a problem, but I don't think valve is probably one of of them. I could be wrong though.
- cheald 13y agoPreorder delivery is encrypted, yeah. However, they also have bits in Steam-delivered games that can check for a valid Steam session, terminate the game session if the Steam session is lost, and the like. I don't think they'll be shipping some of those components because they wouldn't want to enable people building custom Steam installs that just stub out the DRM features.
- thefreeman 13y agoWhile I agree that they will definitely not be releasing source for Steam, I doubt its for DRM reasons. As far as I can tell steamapi.DLL DRM is pretty thoroughly owned.