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sershe | 2 months ago

They are merely trying to commoditize their complement https://gwern.net/complement

Your games are still not owned by you, they are locked inside your Steam account (liable to be suspended at any time) and app (as I've learned when I couldn't play when their pretend-but-not-really-offline mode broke; I now block it at firewall level most of the time). That part will never become "community" oriented.

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preisschild|2 months ago

Steam Games can definitely be DRM free too. Its the developer/publishers choice.

sershe|2 months ago

Can you actually download these games like one can with GOG? As far as I can tell, even indie games require steam to run.

DRM is also kind of orthogonal to their terms. Ubisoft has their own DRM; let's say I am ok with Ubisoft's since at least they made the game, would I be able to play Anno that I "purchased" on Steam if Valve suspends my Steam account for some random reason?