Comment on #StopPayingGames

• yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, yet they do respect that licence and customers… so far, we trust them mostly.

  Once day, Steam may be gone from market, replace by another service, who knows, and our libraries be gone by turning servers down - there is a possibility. But I struggle to imagine Steam would delet a game from my purchases without refunds and without any really serious reason, like few others do.

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  • TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t they have a system that makes all games DRM free if something like that happenned?

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• sobchak@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s how all software, except Free Software, works. Most media as well (except copyleft).

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• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The game is downloaded and installed on your machine.

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  • ButteredBread@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It also is from the other vendors, other wise you could not play offline games aside from all games being very slow probs. They have DRM, you cannot play most games without a launcher (there are some games, most of my steam library is mostly DRM free but maybe cuz they were indie games) unless you crack it.

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  • grinning_serpent@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And requires authentication via Steam to launch. No steam, no game.

    At least not unless third parties come up with a workaround.

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    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are many DRM free games on Steam that don’t require the Steam client to run once downloaded

      www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games

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• MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

  Watch, learn.

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