Tell me how do you but a game on Steam and play it without downloading it from their servers? 🤔
Downloading a DRM-free game from a web store is not DRM no matter how much you repeat that it is.
It is, you depend on a digital storefront to have a proof of ownership and to download the game in the first place.
It isn’t. The files can be copied and distributed any way you like. Same goes for GOG.
What’s digital about physical copies?
It’s still digital. It contains digital data… come on, you can’t seriously be unaware of this. Is a digital camera not a digital because it stores the data on an SD card?
Physical media has DRM too. CDs, DVDs, BluRays, game cartridges all have DRM.
Your argument that buying something means it’s DRM is nonsense. Buying something from a physical shop and buying something online isn’t particularly different. They’re either both DRM or neither are.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Which is the only way you can own and play a game without an internet connection?
That’s the only true DRM free and true ownership experience.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You’re moving the goalposts again?
Downloading a game isn’t DRM.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Yes it is as you depend on the goodwill of a digital platform. If Steam bans you how do you prove that you own the “DRM free” games you’ve bought from them and haven’t simply pirated them?
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Why would you need to prove anything? The whole point of DRM free is that you don’t need to.
If steam bans me, I run the executables that I’ve downloaded. Same as I would if I pirated it.
Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can block you from playing your physical media, and yet you claim that isn’t DRM, because the data exists on a disc/cartridge, rather than stored on an SSD.