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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Steam is DRM. Note the warnings all mention third-party drm. Eventually your login to steam expires and you can't play your games, and steam can revoke games and your access to them at any point for any reason.

Steam is good, but let's not imply it's providing a DRM free experience.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Steam is only DRM if Steamworks is required for the game to launch, e.g. I can copy my Baldur's Gate 3 files to a different PC and launch them without Steam.

It's up to the developer how they behave if Steam is not present.

See also https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I didn't know that. It's good to know. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think what they mean is that when you buy the game on Steam, you can't just download the game files through their website. You need to install their client. Which can be seen as a form of DRM.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

No, I meant what I said, I was wrong and have been corrected.