Comment on God of War is coming to GOG

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Steam has a drm system, not everything uses it though

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  • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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    • 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.

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      • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        This is wrong.

        There’s only one game on GOG that doesn’t offer DRM-free installers, and that’s their live service game Gwent.

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    • HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Care to name the games you’re referring to?

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    • 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?

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• ninchuka@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  not all games on steam use the DRM

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• HKayn@dormi.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Are you able to launch all your Steam games without Steam?

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• 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.

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• LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Huhh. Very unusual. You don’t already have steam open?

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Nope.

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