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Article #37207Re: Square Enix weekend sale on GOG - Thief, Deus EX series, $3.99 each game DRM-FREE
From: noman
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:30
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:30
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On 10/1/2012 8:07 PM, Rin Stowleigh wrote: > I mostly chimed in on this thread because usually when JL mentions a > GOG deal, he will say "but it's still $XX on Steam", without realizing > that it has been on sale for half the GOG price about three times on > average over the last six months on Steam, and that the only DRM > present is dependent on what the publisher decided to impose at the > time (not Valve). > > That's not a tired old debate. It's stating facts then leaving them > where they lay. > Steam enforces its own DRM on almost all games that you can buy on Steam, and that's a fact. You can't re-install those games, without having internet access and an access to Steam server. You can't have two different games purchased on Steam running on two different PCs at the same time, unless you carefully manage offline mode, which itself has its issues. You can't give the game you purchase to someone else unless you share your account details with them. I don't want to continue this debate either, but insisting that Steam is not a DRM and then declaring it as a fact is more than a bit idiotic. -- Noman
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