• cloudskater@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Yes, if we want to get technical, we don’t legally own those games, obviously. However, so long as they are DRM free, we can always install them on whatever hardware we choose, as long as its supported. Thats why people say DRM takes away a player’s ability to “own” their games.

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      2 months ago

      For a lot of games, Steam is just an installer. They start fine on their own if you copy the folder.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I have a few games like that. That means they’re DRM free. The issue with Steam is not that it forces all games on it to have DRM, but that is doesn’t make games that DON’T have DRM easy to identify.