Comment on God of War is coming to GOG
Gabadabs@kbin.social 2 years agoIt is, but most of their library is DRM free, so once you download it, those files are yours. Steam won't let you launch a game without logging into your account, gog doesn't even check.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Is this for real? I’m able to go to the folder on my hard drive and launch steam games without opening steam.
echo64@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Steam has a drm system, not everything uses it though
kadu@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Chet_Awesomelad@kbin.social 2 years ago
GOG once did enforce the use of DRM-free executables, but (as far as I understand it) once they expanded their store to include modern AAA titles, some of the bigger game companies refused to follow that rule so they dropped the requirement.
HKayn@dormi.zone 2 years ago
Care to name the games you’re referring to?
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Really? Huh, the about page still claims everything’s DRM free. Got any examples, so I know which games to not buy?
ninchuka@lemmy.one 2 years ago
not all games on steam use the DRM
HKayn@dormi.zone 2 years ago
Are you able to launch all your Steam games without Steam?
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
It’s almost certainly still going through steam. Steam has a .dll in all your game folders and it interacts with Steam. You don’t have to launch it through the launcher for it to use Steam. If you ever pirate a game and look at the crack files, there will often be that same name .dll in it. This is to bypass that Steam interface. If the game came from GoG it won’t even have a crack. It just works.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Huhh. Very unusual. You don’t already have steam open?
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nope.