Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year

• artyom@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is in the sense that you can’t play the games without it.

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  • magikmw@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can. Many of steam games you can just archive or copy over somewhere else and they’ll still work just fine.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And you can get a crack for most DRM out there (nowadays, even Denuvo).

      That’s make it any less a DRM.

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      • bitfucker@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        No, cracking the game vs just copying the downloaded file is not equivalent. How did you not see that? With copying the file it means the original file is already DRM free and does not require steam. So steam is just a glorified downloader and launcher in that sense

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      • blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There are literally games on Steam without any DRM at all, equal to GOG’s implementation. It’s all up to the individual publisher.

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    • dreamkeeper@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wow it’s truly insane how you guys will just blatantly to defend your precious gaben

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have a laptop that stayed offline for a year. Steam worked just fine in offline mode the whole time. What did you think was going to happen?

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      • magikmw@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ok dude.

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