Subj : The Disney+ price hike ha
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun Oct 12 2025 11:08:27

  Re: The Disney+ price hike ha
  By: Nightfox to Accession on Sun Oct 12 2025 01:38 am

 > It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games..  I'm
 > not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from running them
 > directly.
 >
 > Nightfox

Steam is a runtime dependency for a lot of games, specially many which support achievements, leader boards and multiplayer play. The games use Steam provided services for those, which is the reason many games that have both a Steam version and non-Steam versions distribute the non-Steam version as a pertially functional copy.

For example, the Gog release for Redout has no online multiplayer support so they had to add a bunch of extras and lower the price so they could sell it and not be lynched.


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