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?
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.
Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can block you from playing your physical media
Only if there’s an online component to the game. If I go buy a brand new Switch and a physical copy of Mario Kart, there’s nothing Nintendo can do to stop me from playing the game.
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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can block you from playing your physical mediaOnly if there’s an online component to the game. If I go buy a brand new Switch and a physical copy of Mario Kart, there’s nothing Nintendo can do to stop me from playing the game.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not true. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo can and do brick peoples systems, e.g. when they’re reported stolen or someone modifies their system.
And Switch game cartridges literally contain DRM lmao
Nice job ignoring the rest of my comment.