64bithero@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoIf Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??message-squaremessage-square138linkfedilinkarrow-up1151arrow-down19file-text
arrow-up1142arrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square138linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoOnly 4.2% of games on Steam are DRM-free. It’s not as many as people think.
minus-squaremissingno@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month 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-up3·1 month 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.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month 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.