Only about 15%. It’s not as many as people think
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Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 day ago
Many steam games are DRM free and would work even if Steam shuts down. It’s been like this at least since 2011 or so (that’s when I discovered this, it could be earlier).
I guess the impact would depend on the types of game which one buys on Steam.
chunes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
missingno@fedia.io 12 hours ago
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there's probably more that just aren't documented as such.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 18 hours ago
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
piskertariot@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.
huey_m@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Yeah, I suspect not only would we see a bunch of cracks released for games that now have no way to update to try to kill the cracks, but we’d probably see something like emulation of steam to get around it.
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 day ago
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
yep. the game exists somewhere. I’ve bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.
agentTeiko@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
And, friendly nudge:
It’s not hard to back up games from Steam. Especially those with no DRM. Just keep them on a drive somewhere.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Pretty expensive though, given the prices on storage. And many of them will be out of date in a few months. Face it, we can download from the high seas at any time, the only reason most of us are buying on steam is convenience. Whatever we could backup on steam today we could just retrieve from elsewhere at any time.