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Can't you download your game off steam and play it forever; and if it can't connect to the service, it will just let you play offline? Sure, that loses out on
by RHSeeger 2mo ago
Can't you download your game off steam and play it forever; and if it can't connect to the service, it will just let you play offline?
Sure, that loses out on the ability to transfer it to a friend, but it's better.
- benoau 2mo agoSome of them do, the Total War games I play the most require weekly online activation. But that's just using what you payed for, it only very slightly overlaps with what actually owning something entails.
- RHSeeger 2mo agoIs that online activation Steam or is it a third party thing? Steam allows selling games that have external DRM like that. I think they, themselves, don't do it. That doesn't invalidate your other point.
- Macha 2mo agoSteamworks, the integration library for games to interact with Steam features, has an optional DRM component. It's not a particularly impressive one, so it's more about stopping people copy/pasting their steamapps folder than stopping dedicated pirates, hence why so many publishers use alternative solutions.