▲ 747 ▼ Anon is a fan of GabeN (sh.itjust.works) submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works [M] to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works 221 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 0 points 9 months ago (2 children) You have to log into steam to be able to launch any game you own on steam. As opposed to launching the game standalone. This is the gateway you have to cross to access what you paid for. That's the management of digital rights, right there. It's not complicated. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago* Unless the game has DRM built in by the developer, you can just fucking launch the game standalone my yin That's what I said in the earlier comment Steam isn't preventing you from launching shit It's not complicated Sorry for being a snarky jerk, but it's literally what I said earlier, you can just go to the game folder and launch the executable. Steam doesn't prevent it, it's not stopping you from doing anything. permalink fedilink source parent [–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago Seems I need to update my definition, polled some friends (I didn't vote) and this was the result You can still launch games you've downloaded without steam preventing it unless the game has developer added code preventing it, but if people consider having to use the storefront to buy and download them drm, then it seems I should update my word usage permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago* Unless the game has DRM built in by the developer, you can just fucking launch the game standalone my yin That's what I said in the earlier comment Steam isn't preventing you from launching shit It's not complicated Sorry for being a snarky jerk, but it's literally what I said earlier, you can just go to the game folder and launch the executable. Steam doesn't prevent it, it's not stopping you from doing anything. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 9 months ago Seems I need to update my definition, polled some friends (I didn't vote) and this was the result You can still launch games you've downloaded without steam preventing it unless the game has developer added code preventing it, but if people consider having to use the storefront to buy and download them drm, then it seems I should update my word usage permalink fedilink source parent
