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you're wrong. steam absolutely is DRM and works exactly as such. but it's not mandatory, and there are games that opt to not use steam DRM. so there are many DRM-free games on Steam, more than a thousand at this point, but also many times more that can't be launched without Steam.
There's a HUGE difference between a platform having optional DRM and a platform being DRM. Also it's not opt-out, it's opt-in, so by default games don't have it, if they do it's because someone on the game studio decided to add it, Valve does not force it or even encourage it, they just have it available.
It's very unfair to say "Steam is DRM", and a more accurate description is what I used "Steam has optional DRM".
no there isn't. DRM games to DRM free game ratio is like 40:1. it doesn't matter if it's opt in. steam's a DRM software. that's what lead to it being so popular with developers and publishers in the first place. if they didn't have it things would probably have gone a different way. it would probably have fewer games total than i currently have in my library.
If for every 41 games that had Denuevo one didn't had DRM Denuevo wouldn't be a DRM software. However Denuevo is a DRM software, a game cannot both have Denuevo and not have DRM, however a game can be on Steam and not have DRM, therefore Steam is not DRM.
Btw, I think the ratio is way off, the vast majority of games on steam are Indy which don't usually integrate with DRM.