It's kinda true???

It's kinda true???

Go back

Steam drm basically doesn't exist. As long as you have your game installed, it's yours.

Back to red.dit with you,nigger

I mean this is kinda true if you just slap a Russian .dll in the game directory, but most titles do actually have steam stub drm at minimum. Plenty of drm free games on steam too though, surprisingly.

It depends entirely on the developer/publisher if they want to use Steam DRM or any DRM for that matter or to require central servers to function.
On the other hand Ubisoft is one of said developers/publishers that pushes for multiple layers of DRMs to their games and shoves reliance on central servers whenever they can.

Any other questions?

steam won't outright erase your account
at most you lose your ability to play multiplayer in some
and they don't answer to clueless normalfag shareholders expecting constant infinite growth

Slapping .dll works most of the time. Rarely anything more is required. I haven't seen a game that requires me to do anything more to play it both offline and online.

I can still download and play games that have been "removed" from steam I paid for

"you don't own your games"

is forced to allow refunds because legally you actually do own your games

I love not being American.

Launch Unlisted game I have on Steam

Launch game from the current paradigm from gaming and I'm explicitly prevented from running it explicitly by Ubisoft

If you don't see the difference you're being dishonest.
Really all Ubisoft put on display that as they exist copyright laws are retardedly broken.
Because that's specifically what's being contended here, that by misapplying the fact that you as an individual don't have the right to redistribute copies of media, Ubisoft has the right to defraud you by revoking operability to your purchased media.
Which has literally nothing to do with Copyright Law and its application to ensure people own their ideas and cannot be impersonated as a form of fraud against both the creator of the media and patrons who wish to pay for it.

Steam is a drm itself, faggot. You have to install this botnet just to download the fucking game.

Strictly speaking, no you don't.
And even then an arbitrary interface change for accessing the repositories wouldn't actually confer more or less drm.

Use a sandbox or virtual machine if this is such an issue for you or anyone retarded as much

okay? a brick and mortar store is DRM, too.
good luck obtaining your fully paid preordered physical game without explicit permission from gamestop

As opposed to..........? Magically inventing the game out of free air?

Like I know you're a dishonest faggot OP, but do you want to have a conversation about how Disney misapplied copyright law to murder some dude's wife?
But of course if we talked about that, then there would be literally no grounds to stand on to even begin to pretend what Ubisoft did was even remotely ok.

he expects every single developer to make a website where you make an account and download it from there and just ignore the annoying tedium of it

You don't need to install any cancerous 3rd party botnet that comes with a forced system service on autorun by default jsut to download a gog game installer. Or literally any other web store. Kill yourself, disingenuous subhuman valvenigger.

the copyright law shit was an attempt at deflecting the consequences of the avoiadable death. it did not cause the death.

cancerous 3rd party botnet

do you have any actual issues with steam or are you just mad

Well no, even beyond the scope of just taking the freebie that he's a straight up paid shill which is a tremendous fucking problem on the internet these days. It's just a disingenuous reach to pretend the nigh sole example of a company that aren't complete faggots all the time for no reason is actually just as bad (implied: which makes the other ones less bad) as every other company.

Do you have no ability to read, or you are a mentally ill shill?

He's mad that his chink store never took off

do you buy everything you have directly from the manufacturers or do you get it from a supermarket

If any rights holder can make any spurious claims about an infinitely modifiable "legal agreement" under the vague assertion that you've magically become a licensee of a piece of media, which was the assertion, as having used Disney+ at all, the Disney Corporation had the right to commit manslaughter on that dude's wife and he had zero legal recourse for it.
Yes anon, the POINT of that Disney case was to try and assert that the Disney corporation has full legal authority to murder whoever they wanted at any time for any reason provided they've even observed a piece of Disney media by misapplying intellectual property law. Because that was simply less of a problem than dealing with the paltry matters of manslaughter.

Deranged valvenigger cannot differentiate between buying a product and buying a fucking spyware that you are forced to use every single time when you want to use a product.
If steam was an actual STORE they would never have a problem with delivering their product directly from web store. They want you to install their shitty cancerous bloatware. And they've been shoving it down everyone's throat since cs and orange box time. But I guess you are too fucking underage to know that.

So how do you download a game you bought digitally then? Make it yourself from source code?

i own my games thoughbeit.

Well even then you'd need the source code which you'd ostensibly need to retrieve from somewhere in the first place, but I'm sure there's all sorts of reasons why it wouldn't count.

Why the actual is it okay and legal for a corporation to put in "we can fuck you over six ways from sunday and there's nothing you can do about it once you click agree" as their terms of service? Is there no regulation to proofread this shit to make sure you aren't trying to take your end-users blood and not just sell a product?

To be clear, basically none of these agreements could pass a court of law, and the very VERY delicate issue of microsoft completely fucking up copyright honestly can never be touched on in an American court without the whole shebang collapsing in on itself since that would be, at this point, decades of impossible to enforce contracts.
That's mostly why it GOES to arbitration, because the assumption is that it would be too costly and time consuming for anyone to actually go through the process of legally affirming that none of these contracts could really be enforced whatsoever.
You know, because contract law is a thing and there are very specific and limited ways you can actually sign your rights away.

kill yourself

So basically, the only reason they don't actually crack down on that corruption is because the entire system is held up by it?

Pretty much.
I don't know if you've seen it, but its sort of like that one comic where all of the internet is resting on the work of like, one dude from 1970s.
Except in this case it's the spurious and legally dubious behavior of Bill Clinton.
Honestly we live in weird times right now where there's simultaneously very explicit demonstrations of both why we have copyright law in the first place and the issues with how it's applied.

Plenty of drm free games on steam too though, surprisingly.

having DRM is not mandatory on steam

rent free lmao

Also, Steam sort of forced the issue of digital refunds by getting the austrailian courts pissed at them which allowed them to roll it out for everyone.
Which certain people didn't like and resulted in situations like Sega giving everyone who preordered Sonic Mania on steam a copy of Sonic 1 specifically 2 weeks before the actual launch and quietly adding Denuvo.
Or how Microsoft specifically waited a little over two weeks to add easy anti cheat in to break the Master Chief Collection on steam.
The legal system is kind of a gigantic mess.

Yep. Go check that Total spend in your Steam account sometime. What a waste.

normalfag shareholders expecting constant infinite growth

That's just Keynesian niggers in general, it's the reason there's future.

You need to sign up for gog and give them your info to download a game, so that's also drm by that logic.
The worst form of drm are consoles, always online, and the random dogshit many physical games implemented on pc, mainly a paltry number of activation attempts.