▲ 1293 ▼ "what happened??" (lemmy.today) submitted 2 years ago by helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world 153 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) I imagine it would be for older games though? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Why do you assume that? Any dev can decide to just not code their game in a way that requires steam. Valve doesn't modify whatever the studio decides to ship in any way that would change that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Wait... Half Life 2 is the game that forced me to install steam, create an account and wasn't playable without it is "now" in this list and is DRM free? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Removed back in 2004, seems like. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago Interesting... I got the retail version back then and it was bundled with Steam and did check your account on every start (or required a steam client running with the title in the library). It even had a warning label on the box stating that it needed a steam account and that the CD key would be linked to your account. But I do not remember it using Securom. Which checks out, as I vaguely remember buying I after Christmas. Maybe it got removed later? I can find some discussions in the steam forums arguing about the drm from about 10 years ago, and other more recent discussion where people are wondering why it has no more drm - e.g. this comment describing the same procedure as I did above Fun fact: My Steam accounts lists that it was created in July 31st 2004, although Steam was released on September 12th 2004. I guess they just added a random date on old accounts that didn't have a date registered? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) Why do you assume that? Any dev can decide to just not code their game in a way that requires steam. Valve doesn't modify whatever the studio decides to ship in any way that would change that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Wait... Half Life 2 is the game that forced me to install steam, create an account and wasn't playable without it is "now" in this list and is DRM free? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Removed back in 2004, seems like. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago Interesting... I got the retail version back then and it was bundled with Steam and did check your account on every start (or required a steam client running with the title in the library). It even had a warning label on the box stating that it needed a steam account and that the CD key would be linked to your account. But I do not remember it using Securom. Which checks out, as I vaguely remember buying I after Christmas. Maybe it got removed later? I can find some discussions in the steam forums arguing about the drm from about 10 years ago, and other more recent discussion where people are wondering why it has no more drm - e.g. this comment describing the same procedure as I did above Fun fact: My Steam accounts lists that it was created in July 31st 2004, although Steam was released on September 12th 2004. I guess they just added a random date on old accounts that didn't have a date registered? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Wait... Half Life 2 is the game that forced me to install steam, create an account and wasn't playable without it is "now" in this list and is DRM free? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Removed back in 2004, seems like. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago Interesting... I got the retail version back then and it was bundled with Steam and did check your account on every start (or required a steam client running with the title in the library). It even had a warning label on the box stating that it needed a steam account and that the CD key would be linked to your account. But I do not remember it using Securom. Which checks out, as I vaguely remember buying I after Christmas. Maybe it got removed later? I can find some discussions in the steam forums arguing about the drm from about 10 years ago, and other more recent discussion where people are wondering why it has no more drm - e.g. this comment describing the same procedure as I did above Fun fact: My Steam accounts lists that it was created in July 31st 2004, although Steam was released on September 12th 2004. I guess they just added a random date on old accounts that didn't have a date registered? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Removed back in 2004, seems like. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago Interesting... I got the retail version back then and it was bundled with Steam and did check your account on every start (or required a steam client running with the title in the library). It even had a warning label on the box stating that it needed a steam account and that the CD key would be linked to your account. But I do not remember it using Securom. Which checks out, as I vaguely remember buying I after Christmas. Maybe it got removed later? I can find some discussions in the steam forums arguing about the drm from about 10 years ago, and other more recent discussion where people are wondering why it has no more drm - e.g. this comment describing the same procedure as I did above Fun fact: My Steam accounts lists that it was created in July 31st 2004, although Steam was released on September 12th 2004. I guess they just added a random date on old accounts that didn't have a date registered? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] elvith@feddit.org 1 point 2 years ago Interesting... I got the retail version back then and it was bundled with Steam and did check your account on every start (or required a steam client running with the title in the library). It even had a warning label on the box stating that it needed a steam account and that the CD key would be linked to your account. But I do not remember it using Securom. Which checks out, as I vaguely remember buying I after Christmas. Maybe it got removed later? I can find some discussions in the steam forums arguing about the drm from about 10 years ago, and other more recent discussion where people are wondering why it has no more drm - e.g. this comment describing the same procedure as I did above Fun fact: My Steam accounts lists that it was created in July 31st 2004, although Steam was released on September 12th 2004. I guess they just added a random date on old accounts that didn't have a date registered? permalink fedilink source parent
