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    10 months ago

    t’s the same as Steam, you sign the contract called “ User Agreement” that has a section on how you don’t own the games

    this is what you said,

    Steam is a platform, that host various games, some with DRM, some without DRM

    Valve is a dev, their games have DRM. Just because Valves games have drm, doesnt make that all games on steam have DRM. You painted an entire platform as DRM when it isn’t. it’s one thing to say that Valve theirselves puts drm in their games, its a completely different statement to blanket all of steam to be drm, when thats a completely false statement.

    For example, go get someones steam copy of witcher 3, youll quickly find out that it itself has no drm, despite coming from steam, and not the GOG version.

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      10 months ago

      Again, the very definition of DRM is Valve approval of:

      1. Your account

      2. Your money

      3. The requirements laid out in the Steam User agreement

      You do not own the game, you don’t own the Steam Client, you don’t own the account and buying doesn’t offer refunds for real money. THE WHOLE THING IS VALVE CORPORATE LEGAL TERF. You can never get Steam exclusive games outside of Steam.

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        10 months ago

        You can never get Steam exclusive games outside of Steam.

        the discussion of steam exclusive games was never part of a question. Again, go download witcher 3 on steam and tell me that it doesnt work if you transfer it to another device. If ti works, it defies that steam as an entirely is DRM, because thats the opposite of what DRM would provide.

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            10 months ago

            after you have downloaded the game, you don’t need the steam client, it does not use Steam DRM. if youre arguing after closing you can no longer download the game, that applies to all platforms. What the fuck would you be arguing then.

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              10 months ago

              Again not how DRM free market works. You should not have to download another software to download the game.

              Gaming wasn’t about platform, it was the ability to download games from your computer or CD. No signups or anything stupid like Steam legal contracts.