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7/4/2025, 11:01:35 AM
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I didn't act like it's the standard. DRM free games on physical media like CDs wasn't the standard either, genius or did you unironically think that back when we had CD physical media on PC, that we could just take the CD out of the drive and play the game? Cuz that's not how it worked. Even some pirated games needed the CD to be in the drive.
If devs implement DRM, then there is DRM - simple as that. All I said is that you don't need to implement DRM on Steam and there are plenty of games that don't.
In fact here, a game I bought on Steam, copied from 1 computer to another and then ran without Steam running. I do have Steam installed on that computer so the first line in console shows what it would look like if it was in fact running, but as far as the game is concerned Steam doesn't even exist because the game is on system wine which has no access to any functionality related to Steam. I could write this game on magnetic tape and play it 100 years from now.
I didn't act like it's the standard. DRM free games on physical media like CDs wasn't the standard either, genius or did you unironically think that back when we had CD physical media on PC, that we could just take the CD out of the drive and play the game? Cuz that's not how it worked. Even some pirated games needed the CD to be in the drive.
If devs implement DRM, then there is DRM - simple as that. All I said is that you don't need to implement DRM on Steam and there are plenty of games that don't.
In fact here, a game I bought on Steam, copied from 1 computer to another and then ran without Steam running. I do have Steam installed on that computer so the first line in console shows what it would look like if it was in fact running, but as far as the game is concerned Steam doesn't even exist because the game is on system wine which has no access to any functionality related to Steam. I could write this game on magnetic tape and play it 100 years from now.
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