• rdri@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    By that definition Steam is DRM free too. I can download tons of my games, pack and send them to you and they’ll work. My rough estimate is that about half of all games are like that. Half of the remaining games rely on Steam environment for community or multiplayer functionality.

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      7 months ago

      Some games on Steam are DRM-free and you can play them without running Steam. That is good, but you still need the proprietary Steam client to download them and Steam doesn’t tell you which games have DRM before you buy them. gog.com and itch.io prove that this can be done better.

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        7 months ago

        but you still need the proprietary Steam client to download them

        You do. But hey you end up with DRM free games you like so much. By the way why so you even want games? Aren’t most of them unethical?

        gog.com and itch.io prove that this can be done better.

        Gog offline installers are also unethical, no?