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Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere (www.eurogamer.net)
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[โ€“] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they actually let you own the game

Let's be clear. Both Steam and GoG sell you the same licence for a game.

Steam comes with optional DRM that requires you to use the Steam client. Whether or not this DRM is present on a game is the publisher's decision, not Steam's.

Steam could certainly be criticised for providing the functionality but it's not mandatory.

Cyberpunk 2077 on Steam for instance has no DRM and can be run without Steam. Even if a game has Steam DRM it's usually trivial to bypass it.

[โ€“] plutopos@lemmy.zip 3 points 17 hours ago

The official Stean documentatikn even says Steam DRM should not be used as antipiracy because it's easily bypassed