ShroomBomba: If I go to a brick and mortar store, purchase a game, come home, put game in computer and computer says "you need Steam to play this game", pretty sure that is the very definition of DRM.
rtcvb32: Oh gee, this exactly happened when i had Skyrim... Had to install steam. Had to register the key. 99% of the data was on the disc. And it refuses to run if steam isn't activated in the background.
And
This is why i get the cracked version(s) to avoid this shit. It's also why when i
DO get on steam and download a game just to test if it's DRM (
by deleting the steam.exe file), i give a big fat downvote and never touch the game again.
Too bad, some of them looked promising.
Yeah, in all honesty I had never even known what Steam was until about 6 or 7 years ago buying a game in an actual store and being required to install it to play the game. That's even after playing PC and console games for years lol
Totally caught me off guard and was super irritating at the time to know I needed their program to play a game purchased legit.
Even now, the games that are "DRM-free" on Steam you can't install them without first installing the client itself. That's not truly DRM-free because you still have to go through some third party software to get to the actual game you paid for. Whether you bought it on their store or not, that's the worst part.
Some people have a different definition of "DRM-free". Mine is that once the game has been purchased, it doesn't matter what company comes or goes, I still have access to it. They can say whatever they want, it probably won't happen any time soon, but if Steam goes belly up, does anybody actually buy the crap their shoveling that they are gonna patch 25,000 games? Give me a break! They won't even fix the simplest of things broken for years on the platform let alone give a crap about what people are gonna do after they are gone. Gabe will be on a beach in the Bahamas sipping Pina Coladas!
That's why I love and will always do my best to give my cash to GOG, it feels like you actually own it, whereas on Steam it feels more like you are just renting it.