🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:01:56 GMT, john...@frontier.com (John Lewis)
wrote:

>On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 01:06:38 -0400, Rin Stowleigh
><rstow...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:13:55 -0400, "Jim" <gtfo@stfu.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>"John Lewis" <john...@frontier.com> wrote in message 
>>>news:514ca15c.9732859@news.giganews.com...
>>>> Valve, being chronic $$control-freaks$$, will probably now
>>>> contractually insist that any games achieving "greenlit" status either
>>>> be sold exclusively using Steam-DRM,. or have a limited Steam initial
>>>> exclusivity....
>>>>
>>>> BTW, you can indeed now preorder the game on GOG.... DRM-free, of
>>>> course....
>>>
>>>There are DRM free games on Steam so I don't think its required.
>>>http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/page1
>>>Skyrim was DRM free until the first patch so if it is required its not 
>>>enforced very well. 
>>
>>You might have better luck with this argument here than me, but I
>>tried a long time ago to explain that Steam's authentication and DRM
>>are not the same thing.  Yes some games do have DRM in addition to a
>>Steam account requirement, but there are also free games that don't
>>care how many copies you have or how many accounts you've tied it to,
>>as long as you tie it to an account.
>>
>>Simple authentication and not DRM.
>>
>
>Simple authentication used to mean a CD-Key, locking the game to its
>purchased CD or DVD. 

No, you're just confusing matters.  That is a form of copy protection,
not authentication.  Please research these things before discussing,
because a mistake like this so early in the post nulllifies pretty
much everything that follows it.