Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks agoYou can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin
kadup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
While you’re not wrong, by that logic, it’s actually fairly trivial to take my Steam downloads drive and run it on any computer even without my Steam account.
smeg@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn’t work if they couldn’t authenticate to your Steam account.
kadup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It works in the same way that dumping your GameCube games and running them on Dolphin works… It’s quick and easy, but it’s against the ToS and requires breaking DRM.
Steam’s DRM is weak, and in some interviews some Valve developers even gave hints that this is on purpose. Many Steam games will simply run without Steam if you just double click the .exe in the install folder, and the vast majority that only rely on Steam’s DRM can be opened by running a free “Steam Emulator” software that pretends to be an active Steam account with a correct license.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
A lot of Steam games don’t have any DRM, and most of the rest are pretty easy to strip.
Give it a shot sometime. Completely quit out of Steam, turn off your internet, and try running some of your older Steam games directly from the Steam folder.
I do this somewhat often when my kids are on my other computer playing games on my account and I still want to play something. It’s a little trickier on Linux since you need something to run the Proton/WINE layer, so I mostly stick to Linux-native games in that pretty rare case.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Family share is actually great for this now.
It used to be that if anyone in the group was playing any game it would lock you out of playing anything else on the main account without kicking them off.
But they eased up on it now so you can both play at the same time as long as you aren’t playing the same game at the same time.
So just make a burner account for you or for your kids and family share the library to it and now you don’t even have to go offline unless everyone in the house wants to play BG3 simultaneously.