If I understand this correctly, you value Steam’s honesty over a few instances in which GoG hypocritically violated their own DRM policy. That sucks, for sure, and GoG should be called out for it – but at the end of the day, the vast majority of games in my GoG library can be downloaded as offline installers that don’t need to contact a server, while the vast majority of the games I own on Steam can’t (barring, of course, circumventing Steam’s fairly weak DRM scheme, which is illegal).
the vast majority of the games I own on Steam can’t
People keep making this claim, but I don’t think this is true, I’ve made backups of lots of games, even played some in lan with some friends from just a single copy to convince them to buy the game. DRM has to be enabled by the developer, so the majority of games don’t do it, but also lots of games are badly coded and assume steam will be present so they fail to start without the steam library, but any game that’s released somewhere else besides steam probably will just work (and any game that’s only released on steam can’t be found anywhere else so they’re irrelevant).
kadup@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
ika_chan@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
If I understand this correctly, you value Steam’s honesty over a few instances in which GoG hypocritically violated their own DRM policy. That sucks, for sure, and GoG should be called out for it – but at the end of the day, the vast majority of games in my GoG library can be downloaded as offline installers that don’t need to contact a server, while the vast majority of the games I own on Steam can’t (barring, of course, circumventing Steam’s fairly weak DRM scheme, which is illegal).
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
People keep making this claim, but I don’t think this is true, I’ve made backups of lots of games, even played some in lan with some friends from just a single copy to convince them to buy the game. DRM has to be enabled by the developer, so the majority of games don’t do it, but also lots of games are badly coded and assume steam will be present so they fail to start without the steam library, but any game that’s released somewhere else besides steam probably will just work (and any game that’s only released on steam can’t be found anywhere else so they’re irrelevant).