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Rule of owning (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Its pretty much up to the developer. You can have no DRM and not even require steam to be open, or you can make your game unplayable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Afaik, Steam only sells licences.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Steam sells DRM-free games too, you can download them and then uninstall Steam and they will work. In this case though, on top of purchasing the game, you are buying a license to download updates for it through Steam. It's a developer decision.

[–] Feyd 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DRM is orthagonal to ownership

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I do not disagree?

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