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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Isn't the DRM provided by Steam optional? Like, the developer/publisher is the one ultimately in control of whether or not its used. And plenty of games on Steam do not use it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Oh yeah i forgot about that, but even that if your game relies on steamworks multiplayer you cannot go online(though can be solved)
    And in my opinion the DRM on steam is not the worst I have seen (only keep the Steam client open as opposed to having Internet always for example)
    Sometimes though the DRM can be circumvented by swapping the engine,using spacewars game(which requires the Steam client),etc

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