Hey everyone.
Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.
They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban “risky” content. This isn’t just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we’ll just sail the high seas for free.
Thanks for the boost, I guess.
It’s already up to the developer whether or not they use Steam’s DRM. And fucktons of games from small devs already don’t use it.
So if I buy the games they can run without Steam on my machine?
Yes. You can even copy the installed files and just launch the executable on another machine that doesn’t even have Steam installed.
Feel like that’s something should be made more clear for people
That’s the thing. The vast majority of people are happy to support game devs and the steam service. That’s probably why this is not an issue causing vast losses.
While not vast with game preservation and playability a big concern actually being clear that a majority of games are perfectly playable without the Steam Launcher would ease concerns
I’m not sure the majority of games is DRM free though. But youve got a point.
Not really. I mean I know that DRM free titles exist on Steam, but what I would like is the DRM free to be the standard