Undoing DRM-free quickly enough that I couldn’t download my remaining installers would be speedrunning the failure of a company faster than Unity, but other than that, they can’t take away what I and others have already downloaded.
Undoing DRM-free quickly enough that I couldn’t download my remaining installers would be speedrunning the failure of a company faster than Unity, but other than that, they can’t take away what I and others have already downloaded.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
Neither can Steam. Then the difference is down to those games on Steam which are not DRM-free.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The difference is that even with the convenience of a launcher, I can decline an update that would undo DRM-free rather than manually copying every vetted DRM-free game on Steam to another directory every time there’s a patch. And that’s only to entertain this apocalyptic what-if that would never happen because it would trigger false advertising law suits would instantly destroy the company.
circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 hours ago
I leave my Steam update settings to only update on Play. This allows me to pretty easily review what is being patched in to any particular game and choose when to apply it.
It’s also trivial on Linux to keep the Proton prefixes and game installs backed up automatically. This has the added benefit of making all game installs portable.
Unfortunately GOG still has no official Linux client, though there are workarounds. The “apocalyptic scenario” would ultimately kill either company, so you’re right to think it is moot.