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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 10 points 7 months ago (9 children)

It's amazing that a company who's primary product is a DRM system managed to make so many people think they're the "good guys"

[–] warm@kbin.earth 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's a lot of DRM-free games on Steam. It's up to developers to use their DRM, it's not a requirement by Valve.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The person you're responding to is one of those people that thinks Steam is the DRM, because 1) it checks games against your account the first time you run them, and 2) they don't provide offline installers like GOG.

[–] warm@kbin.earth 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the lack of offline installers sucks, but it still updates the game and you can copy them files away whenever you want.

[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Agreed. I like Steam.

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