gog.com fulfills this, Steam does not of course.Įven an otherwise DRM free game on Steam, requires Steam to install.Ītlantico: No, I'm doing no such thing. There is no such thing as DRM free with Steam.ĭRM free is among other things installable, standalone, and able to function in a closed, local environment without any third party interaction. You say there are, but no game on Steam comes with an installer. Every single game - *every* - single game, without exception that is rented on Steam is with DRM.īecause you're wrong - there is no game on Steam that can be installed without Steam. There are games on Steam which you'll never need Steam for again after you've downloaded them, neither to play nor install them. Steam can be used as DRM, but not all games use it.

Pheace: You're shooting yourself in the foot by saying every single game (any) because that's simply wrong. They are showing that they are just like anyone else human beings who make mistakes or, in some cases, may even harbour malicious intent. But now that certain studios have opted to/have been forced to handle all the financial, publishing and marketing duties themselves and don't have publishers to use as scape goats, they are showing themselves as they truly are. Not to say that there haven't been legitimate examples of publishers acting that way.

And David Braben has gathered a quite a bit of hero worship during the years same way as Richard Garriott has for an example (yet another old school dev who is developing a MMO game that is supposedly going to have some kind of off-line mode, but as far I know only thing they've shown thus far of Shroud of the Avatar is MMO stuff.) While I'm not a big fan of either the Kickstarter or the Early Access trends, one positive thing that has come from them is that these sort of events and occurrences are increasingly making gamers re-examine the traditional notion that developers are 'creative, innocent angels' and that publishers are 'mean and oppressive'.

Tomimt: I think some people just believe that indie devs are automatically somehow more honorable than big companies are and thus can do no wrong.

Frontier elite dangerous download free