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>It controls that you are authorized to launch the game Steam provides an infrastructure and API to perform this check, but the developers decide whether to us
by aninhumer 13y ago
>It controls that you are authorized to launch the game
Steam provides an infrastructure and API to perform this check, but the developers decide whether to use it. There are many games on Steam which don't use this DRM, and can be launched directly from their install directories even if Steam isn't running.
- StavrosK 13y agoI was about to agree that Steam is DRM, but your comment reminded me of the time I bought a game (Dungeons of Dredmor?) that had a Linux port but which wasn't on Steam. I contacted the developers about getting the Linux port and they said "oh, it's in your Windows Steam game directory, just launch the executable for Linux", and it did, indeed, work fine. That said, Steam is still not as un-DRMed as GOG, which provides a pretty installer you can copy and back up and do whatever you want with, but it's pretty good.
- malka 13y agoI didn't know about that. Thanks you, that's a nice feature to know about :)