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Reject DRM embrace GOG (media.piefed.world)

submitted 4 days ago by CaffeineTwo@piefed.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People are stupid and think steam is drm. It's that simple. For what ever reason people don't realize that 95% of all games on steam are entirely drm free. Just remove the overlay and you don't even need steam turned on to play games.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Steam also offers DRM, it's just up to devs to use it. And steams DRM is relatively unintrusive.

I think steam should maybe be in the middle, and the other 2 far on the left.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think it's lumped in because Steam sells games with DRMs, but GOG on the other hand will not sell games that come with any type of DRM at all.

I'm sure if Valve had the choice, they'd banish DRMs too, but I'm sure they don't because they don't want to piss off their big publishers (even though drm literally does nothing except make paying customers have a worse experience with their shitty games).

(I don't really agree with "oritented to publishers", especially when they release features like a more polish family library, but i guess i can see their point in some ways)