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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)
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[–] 5 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

oh yeah i forgot about that,ig GOG gives the guarantee that the games are DRM-FREE.
and i assume the dev/publisher chooses what type of DRM to do like Denuvo,Steams own DRM (needing the Steam client),etc

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    Steam don't disclose it, there's no tag or label on the store page. Which is fucking shitty, either oversight or business decision. So you would never know unless you tried launching the executable yourself, looked it up online or the game was marketed that way.

    But yeah, with GOG, you just instantly know.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    But don't they do it for external drm?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Yeah for external DRM, but if a game has Steam DRM, then there's no official label or warning.

    For example, Witcher 3 is DRM-free on Steam, but there's nothing (AFAIK) on the Steam page saying that.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    maybe they didnt add it cause
    "The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users."
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