Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoYou buy a game in Steam, you can’t play it without Steam
That’s not true though. For many games, after you installed it you can even uninstall Steam or copy/backup the game to another computer without Steam and play it forever. Yes, many games have DRM that will prevent you from doing that, but that’s the game developers doing. Steam does not have any DRM by itself.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
It does, and the default practice is to enable it, even when DRM-less versions are available elsewhere. It might not be as fancy as Denuvo, but it is there and it doesn’t allow you to run games without also launching Steam.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I am aware they offer a feature. It is up to the game developer to include it though, Steam does not force DRM onto anyone.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
But Goldberg emulator has been widely and easily available basically forever and they’ve done nothing to try to stop people from using it or shutting it down. People are also able to add pirated games to their steam library and run them without fear of banning or retaliation on platforms like SteamOS or the steamdeck. Without being able to launch (pirated) games from within steam, using proton or gaming on Linux at all would be much harder.
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
For all I know, Goldberg emulator only works with multiplayer titles to enable local multiplayer capabilities. If the game is SteamDRM protected, it should not work and is very illegal.
Illegality is a general issie with piracy to begin with - Valve can snap on it any time, leaving us empty-handed. It is not a sustainable solution - just the only one we’re left with. Instead of not suing emulators just yet, I’d rather see them actually removing the damn DRM.
On my end, I make sure to purchase DRM-free games and yarrr the hell out of the DRM-protected ones, but personal activism can only get you so far.