• Qvest@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some games from Steam can still be used without Steam’s DRM. It’s a little difficult to pull it off, but it can be done

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      1 year ago

      A lot of games don’t require Steam’s DRM, you quit Steam and launch through the Steam directory and it still works. I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure I can copy that game to a computer with no internet access and no Steam client and it’ll work. I haven’t done that though, I’ve only done it when I forgot my kids were playing on my account on another computer and wanted to play a game.

      A lot of games don’t work this way, but a lot do. Try it for yourself.

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        1 year ago

        You’d need something like the Goldberg Steam Emulator, since a lot of games rely on services and APIs that Steam provides

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            1 year ago

            I believe it holds true for some single player games as well. I seem to remember Half-Life 2 not wanting to launch without Steam present, same for some other Source games. That really might not be the case though, I’m curious to do more testing… Either way, I watch enough Linux gaming on ARM SBCs (check out MicroLinux and LeePSPComputer on YouTube), can I see them using Goldberg from time to time to get games running with no Steam

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      1 year ago

      Even then. If steam actually locks out out of your games, then I bet hacked will quickly put more effort to sidestep the drm and make that more easily accessible.