oh yeah i forgot about that,ig GOG gives the guarantee that the games are DRM-FREE.
and i assume the dev/publisher chooses what type of DRM to do like Denuvo,Steams own DRM (needing the Steam client),etc
Steam don’t disclose it, there’s no tag or label on the store page. Which is fucking shitty, either oversight or business decision. So you would never know unless you tried launching the executable yourself, looked it up online or the game was marketed that way.
maybe they didnt add it cause
“The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users.” Source
Steam does allow DRM-free games, it’s up to whoever is publishing the game to the platform.
GOG just currently requires it.
Most of the games on GOG are also DRM-free on Steam.
So it’s really just looking at prices and other features that is the defining factor. Considering Steam’s Linux support, GOG is off the table for me.
oh yeah i forgot about that,ig GOG gives the guarantee that the games are DRM-FREE.
and i assume the dev/publisher chooses what type of DRM to do like Denuvo,Steams own DRM (needing the Steam client),etc
Steam don’t disclose it, there’s no tag or label on the store page. Which is fucking shitty, either oversight or business decision. So you would never know unless you tried launching the executable yourself, looked it up online or the game was marketed that way.
But yeah, with GOG, you just instantly know.
But don’t they do it for external drm?
Yeah for external DRM, but if a game has Steam DRM, then there’s no official label or warning.
For example, Witcher 3 is DRM-free on Steam, but there’s nothing (AFAIK) on the Steam page saying that.
maybe they didnt add it cause
“The DRM is noteable for only protecting against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying game files between friends), and is primarily used by game developers to ensure proper Steam/Steamworks API functionality within their games for legitimate users.”
Source
Extremely casual piracy? I suppose fair point.
But now what does each step in the scale mean then. For example what is extreme professional piracy or something.
maybe like copying game files and putting them on sites for anyone(like lots and lots of people) to download?
I donno
Meanwhile CDPR publishes DLC content hosted on a website instead providing a download link to a PDF…