• Elting@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    The original comment is also describing DRM. Look I know and understand that steam works great and is easier than piracy but that doesn’t mean it isnt DRM.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
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      4 days ago

      Okay, sure. I don’t think either I or the parent comment said it wasn’t DRM, I just read the parent comment as explaining the sentence that was described as ambiguous. The question remains: how is that DRM Steam’s fault?

      • Elting@piefed.social
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        4 days ago

        One drive DRM isnt their fault but steam itself is DRM for any of the games you bought there. You cannot access your steam games without your log in and that is DRM. On the spectrum between spotify and bandcamp, steam is much closer to spotify in terms of your ownership of the media you payed for.

        Edit: if you’re confused about conversational tangents then I cant’t explain that to you

        • Urist@leminal.space
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          3 days ago

          There are a lot of DRM-free games on Steam. You have to log in to download them in the first place obviously (they haven’t figured out how to make downloads magic yet unfortunately) but once they’re downloaded you can just launch the executable however you want.

          Any game on Steam that has DRM has DRM because the publisher wants it that way.