I understand what you’re saying, but it’s literally not. DRM is very specically code added to games to prevent them from being copied and shared. Words mean things, ya know
No. It literally is. It is specifically Digital Rights Management. You are using the colloquial term, not the literal. Words do mean things.
You have no capacity to access these products via any other system than Steam. You have no means to redistribute, modify, etc. except for what Steam forwards to you. This is no different than Netflix. It is no different than Spotify.
Denuvo is also a DRM solution, that is leveraged to prevent tampering and reverse engineering. This is because Steam’s DRM guarantees do not rise to the level desired by many publishers. These DRM solutions are more consumer hostile, sure, but it’s ignorant to suggest Steam does not perform a portion of these duties as well.
You can still launch games you’ve downloaded without steam preventing it unless the game has developer added code preventing it, but if people consider having to use the storefront to buy and download them drm, then it seems I should update my word usage
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I understand what you’re saying, but it’s literally not. DRM is very specically code added to games to prevent them from being copied and shared. Words mean things, ya know
blueryth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No. It literally is. It is specifically Digital Rights Management. You are using the colloquial term, not the literal. Words do mean things.
You have no capacity to access these products via any other system than Steam. You have no means to redistribute, modify, etc. except for what Steam forwards to you. This is no different than Netflix. It is no different than Spotify.
Denuvo is also a DRM solution, that is leveraged to prevent tampering and reverse engineering. This is because Steam’s DRM guarantees do not rise to the level desired by many publishers. These DRM solutions are more consumer hostile, sure, but it’s ignorant to suggest Steam does not perform a portion of these duties as well.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
You have to log into steam to be able to launch any game you own on steam. As opposed to launching the game standalone.
This is the gateway you have to cross to access what you paid for.
That’s the management of digital rights, right there. It’s not complicated.
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Unless the game has DRM built in by the developer, you can just fucking launch the game standalone my yin
That’s what I said in the earlier comment
Steam isn’t preventing you from launching shit
It’s not complicated
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Seems I need to update my definition, polled some friends (I didn’t vote) and this was the result
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You can still launch games you’ve downloaded without steam preventing it unless the game has developer added code preventing it, but if people consider having to use the storefront to buy and download them drm, then it seems I should update my word usage