Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Yes. You can even copy the installed files and just launch the executable on another machine that doesn't even have Steam installed.

[–] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How do you play games without launching steam? Can you give me a quick step by step instructions in this matter?

[–] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 1 points 54 minutes ago

So long as the game is DRM-free, you just go to the install location and run the exe file.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Feel like that’s something should be made more clear for people

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's the thing. The vast majority of people are happy to support game devs and the steam service. That's probably why this is not an issue causing vast losses.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

While not vast with game preservation and playability a big concern actually being clear that a majority of games are perfectly playable without the Steam Launcher would ease concerns

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure the majority of games is DRM free though. But youve got a point.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

Not really. I mean I know that DRM free titles exist on Steam, but what I would like is the DRM free to be the standard