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Now can we get steam not opening when we launch a game?
Or the window popping up when you exit steam from the system tray just to show you "steam stutting down" and a spinning icon for 5 seconds.
steam is not a drm-free platform like GOG or Epic Games (some epic games games have additional drm, but most are completely drm-free and there's no client-level drm at all like in steam*).
Most games use the Steam API to check stuff, so Steam client needs to be running.
(I'm actually kinda ok with steam's drm btw, it's not as intrusive as on some other stuff)
I’m fine with the DRM. But why does the window need to open and take several seconds to “connect to the friends network” for a singleplayer game? This doesn’t need to be a blocking process.
There's a setting somewhere to disable the friends list.
Would staying offline on the friends network help that issue?
It doesn't.
Yes if you go to 20 years ago
You mean just the UI popping up or steam itself? Because it's up to individual games if they implement any steam drm, and if so how much.
Isnt this possible? I do it with blender. Just right click the icon of the game and pin it to your taskbar then click it when you wanna launch the game
That depends on if the game uses the steam API for something like drm. Then steam has to launch.
Please
Pretty please