Consider the following,
Steam launches a new mechanics for DRM-free games just like Gog.
Effectively, user can have both DRM based games and non-DRM regulated.
User can also obtain offline installer for non-DRM game library.
User can launch such game both offline (i.e. outside steam client) but also through steam (thus gaining achievments, workshop, etc.).
As far I am not mistaken, Steam doesn't have ability to obtain offline installer files like GoG do, right?
Would Steam ever consider that?
If that happens, then what are the implications in vidya gaem market?
why do people make threads about topics they don't actually care about?
Don't care about GoG or non-drm in general?
I'd like to own everything digitally but also to have my record of purchase taken into account which means full ownership, not some temporarily licensed bs
They are conceding to Windows 7 chads. They fear our suing them with the might of a thousand suns.
>steam was once invented to force you being tied to an online service
>"Would steam ever consider giving you an offline installer ?"
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lol sure thing kid
Steam already sells some games without DRM, they just don't care about securing deals for DRM-free games. As for the offline installers, good luck getting Valve to do anything good for gaming. They will 100% not do that because they want everyone using their service all of the time. There's a reason GOG is the only storefront where you can install your games without any malware app.
>Would Steam ever consider that?
Steam is israeli cancer. They wouldn't. They allow publishers to add denuvo after launch.
Steam already has games without Steam DRM that you can install through Steam but don’t need Steam anymore to play them after install, most of them being ”portable” installs that you could backup and play without requiring Steam again. But I can’t see Steam capitalizing on that, or ever giving you installers either.
well it was worth to ask.
thanks nevertheless
Steam already does not require DRM. It's just not advertised.
TLDR; works on my machine(s)
Most of the games I run through steam can run offline if they're not an mmo type game, even elden rang can run without internet.
If you're playing shit from ubisoft, it's more than likely going to be requiring some user account.
Your basically fricked if you like playing normie games, and want to play offline.
Even games that run offline will require steam running sometimes
I personally haven't run into this when playing without an internet connection.
Doesn't Steamless and Goldberg emu fix that thoughever?
>third party memes
>fix
Do Steam drones really? Imagine how much of a homosexual choking on Gaben's sperm you must be in order to cope with ''cracks'' for your games and claim that Steam is all good.
>it's ok, I can just crack the DRM and it's DRM free!
>thanks gay ben!
>*buys 5 new lootboxes and matching keys*
why are valvedr0nes like this?
>why are valvedr0nes like this?
Pcbros are subhuman, simple as.
>console trash thinks his opinions matter
have a nice day you dumb ape.
>As far I am not mistaken, Steam doesn't have ability to obtain offline installer files like GoG do, right?
Yeah the billion dollar company can't do what some eastern European company can
fkn moron
Steam already has drm free games and you can play everything offline. The only difference between gog and steam is steam is less strict with any rules, which is why steam has way more games than gog, but you also have publishers sneaking in things like their own dogshit launchers, it's a double edged sword.
>Steam already has drm free games
No, Steam store says no.
Steam client required for everything, therefore nothing is DRM free.
>Steam client required for everything
No real difference from gog requiring an account, hell if anything gog is worse now that they can ban your entire account for saying no-no words on their forums. You have to download your games somehow, they don't just magically appear on your computer.
>forums
Dumb facebook zoomer. What do you need forums for? Dipshit. You buy your games on GOG you don't go there to act like a schizoid troon. This is what Ganker is for.
Yeah I can see why someone like you would never use their forums, they'd consider you an unwanted piece of shit and ban your account immediately, yet you still defend them.
What's wrong with losing access to your games library for getting banned off a forum, thoughbeit??questionmark
>could just ban you from the forum
>bans your entire account and removes your ability to download all the games you purchased just to own the chuds
I used to want to support gog, but cdpr has been slipping hard. No reason not to use gog-games now or steam/itch if you want to support the devs.
>I used to want to support gog
>used to want to
LMAO! You're a dumb sissy gayturd. You are a lying sack of shit.
They're a mentally ill spastic. Don't bother.
The only mentaly ill homosexual here is you and the other Steam drone.
Stop defending them doing something extremely shitty. They'll just take advantage of that to frick you over. You hate steam for whatever reason, apply that to gog, they are not your friend.
LMAO!!! I am all for them banning all morons from the platform. How dumb you gotta be to start spamming trash on the GOG forums and not expect to get banned? I've been on GOG for more than 10 years and i have not been banned. But i am not moronic.
>No real difference from gog requiring an account,
lol nice try morono Steamie
Gog) Use any web browser uses open standards
Valve) NO, YOU MUST USE APPROVED OPERATING SYSTEM AND OUR SHITTY GARBAGE DRM SHIT CLIENT
>lol nice try morono
Cool now go call all the steamies moronos on gog's forums.
>Requires an account and you have to use a program to access and download games
>Requires an account and you have to use a program to access and download games
When it comes to the process of downloading games specifically, they are equally as "DRM"
>Requires an account
Nope, it requires a SHITTY DRM CLIENT that only works on specific operating systems
GOG however even has no problem with a web browser running in Windows XP
cope, Steamie dumb frick
Dilate
>Requires an account and you have to use a program to access and download games
In GOG's case you just grab offline installers from their site, no program required
Of course you already know this, and are just willfully lying in an attempt to defend your DRM poz client
remember Steam didn't even allow refunds until EA Origin started allowing refunds and made steam look bad. They are anti-consumer, they don't give a shit, they literally sell gambling services to children
>competition benefited the consumer
cool beans, now if only consoles would stop being even bigger cancer
>until EA Origin
It was because of EU regulations not EA lol
>They are anti-consumer, they don't give a shit, they literally sell gambling services to children
they literally invented lootboxes. Valve and tf2 are 100% the reasons why every modern game is a hero shooter riddled with gay hats and skins and cosmetic homosexualry. No matter how much gaymers will piss and moan about it however they will happily gobble gaybens wiener because they are consooooooomers first and foremost
They literally didn't, that was the chinese mobile market, and then the next most egregious examples were ea and blizzard. Why autists care so much about cosmetics in a free game where you can get free drops that you can then sell to said autists is beyond me.
>remember Steam didn't even allow refunds until EA Origin started allowing refunds and made steam look bad
It was actually a double whammy of Aus & EU courts strongarming valve that got us refunds, and american steambabbies complained about it of course
>Aus & EU courts strongarming
Why haven't they strongarmed nintendo?
People will complain about Litterally anything
The only loss was flash sales but I'm fine with that for refunds
>Aus & EU courts strongarming valve that got us refunds
Proof? Not finding anything about them getting us refunds, only related to how steam grants refunds.
It was AUS courts that brought up the issue
EU is different
>only related to how steam grants refunds
They used to not have a refund policy at all, they only implemented one around 2015
I saw that, but not anything about eu or aus courts forcing them to.
The ACCC sued valve in 2014 over not having refunds (and won), steam added refunds in 2015
Think there's any causation there or pure coincidence?
Looking up accc found it.
>Think there's any causation there or pure coincidence?
I'm sure it was the cause, but they could've just offered refunds only in aus from the sound of it. And I'm curious why it only targeted valve when nintendo still doesn't offer any refunds. Not sure about sony or microsoft's digital stores.
They actually did go after Sony for the same thing a few years back, no clue about the others though
there already are drm free games on steam. terraria being one. you can just click the .exe without steam
>Consider the following,
FRICK STEAM
FRICK GABE
and FRICK YOU TOO
>Would Steam ever consider that?
Gabe hates your guts, so no.
Yoou can go offline on steam and play it that way
>Steam launches a new mechanics for DRM-free games just like Gog
already done before you were born, moron
I copied my Mass Effect installation directory to another drive, closed steam, and played Mass Effect with no DRM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN.
If valve didn't think it's worth spending money to support the 1% of users that use obsolete windows oss why would they think it's worth spending money to drm free games for the .001% of schizophrenic users that think valve will take away their games
Installers are a Windows issue. Microsoft have never bothered to evolve past it. RiscOS had drag and drop programs 35 years ago, which in turn MacOS took for itself. A lot of consoles also work that way once you jailbreak them of course.
The other issue is the first time setup of keeping your runtimes up to date (directx, visual C, etc). Consoles enforce that with mandatory firmware updates, but we have PC users who won't even move beyond windows 7 so I don't know how to solve that
>Steam launches a new mechanics for DRM-free games just like Gog.
you can already do this moron hell you can launch bg3 from the exe, you just miss out on steam cheetos (who gives a frick)
>Steam drones keep going on about this
>but keep quiet when Steam ads Denuvo after launch
>keep quiet when you can't play the game you paid for because your internet is down
Gayben cum slurpers should be all gassed.
>puiblishers control additional drm but this is somehow the store's fault
if anything they should require publishers to disclose it within X days of release instead of the 5 minutes before launch
>this is somehow the store's fault
>the store allows it
>the store does not ask you if you want to keep playing the older version and instead automatically updates you to the new Denuvo version
KILL ALL STEAM DRONES!!! THEY ARE ALL SO FRICKING DUMB!!! THEY WILL DRINK GABENS CUM TILL THEY CHOKE TO DEATH!
Just checked if I could do this with Corn Kids out of curiosity, and it also runs without steam running.
(Though I do lose Steam Input, which means my PS4 controller doesn't work right with it anymore, which I could probably fix with third-party software or just using a 360 controller I GUESS, but it's still neat to see)
Well, steam input is already third party software. I mean, it's not official Microsoft or Sony code, is it?
i played remnant 2 without needing to have steam running, kinda surprising.
Just download the cracks to the games you get locked out of and many old online games have new hosting/spoofed verification. Its going to eventually happen to any game people care enough to make playable.
Until then, just use your preferred service to buy your games since you still support the developers.
both. got 60 plus drm free versions of my steam games from when gog contect was thing.
Don't care still using both
Because that defeats the whole point of DRM?
It's as if you were asking if cashiers could sell alcohol either by asking for your ID or not
i typically buy games on gog. i reluctantly buy from steam when the games not available on gog like resident evils. i wonder if capcom will ever consider selling on gog. that would be amazing. i would even rebuy all the games again just to have the offline installers
Even if Valve wanted to do this, which they don’t, they would need the permission of all the publishers of the games it would impact.
At best it would just be an option devs could allow
Mass enforcement would be suicide
I already do this
>be on linux
>pirate game
>add exe to steam to launch it through proton
>steam takes care of everything