I love my Steam Deck and Proton, but it pisses me off how many Steam games are spyware / DRMware and won’t start without internet on this PORTABLE console, and especially that Valve allows this kind of toxic shit.

So, my Steam Deck stays blocked from the internet in my firewall and I either buy from GOG when available, or there’s this girl on the internet who shares a huge library of games that require no internet connection.

Also, Gabe can STFU about piracy being a service problem until Steam bans DRM and spyware.

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 23 minutes ago

Why not just turn on offline mode on the steam deck? Its easier than blocking it from the internet...

[–] Lumiluz@slrpnk.net 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You can just not buy the games that have stuff like Denuvo etc. If you keep buying them, of course they'll keep including the DRM etc.

Steam is the storefront, and they have plenty of games you can buy without that crap.

[–] commander@lemmings.world 2 points 2 hours ago

And there's always torrenting. Denuvo doesn't actually stop games from being cracked.