64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoIf Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??message-squaremessage-square139linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1138arrow-down1message-squareIf Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square139linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoOnly 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
minus-squaremissingno@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoIt looks like this list is manually curated, so there’s probably more that just aren’t documented as such.
minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 days agoProbably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.
minus-squareAgent_Karyo@piefed.worldBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoDidn’t know it was that low, I knew it was a smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages. That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.
Only 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
It looks like this list is manually curated, so there’s probably more that just aren’t documented as such.
Probably depends on your definition of drm free. You could start steam in offline mode and the vast majority of games would work forever. Their drm is also a known quantity and easily bypassed.
Didn’t know it was that low, I knew it was a smaller share, but I thought it would be double digit percentages.
That being said, many critically acclaimed games are indeed DRM free on Steam.