• warm@kbin.earth
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    21 hours ago

    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.

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        17 hours ago

        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.

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          16 hours ago

          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.”
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            16 hours ago

            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.

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              15 hours ago

              maybe like copying game files and putting them on sites for anyone(like lots and lots of people) to download?
              I donno