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Nothing more disappointing to me than seeing a game I might enjoy... and then it's only available on PC on Epic Games store. Why can't it be available on Epic, Xbox game store and Steam? It's so annoying, like you have no choice but to use Epic... which I would literally do ANYTHING not to use.

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[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe -5 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Both are horrible mess, I don't really understand this deepthroating of steam their ui is horrible, they do behave like a monopoly, games by them have drm by default. Same can be said about epic.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

No, Steam games do not have DRM by default. By default Steam is a mere download manager. For Steam DRM to be applied, the publisher has to run the drm_wrap command: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

Feel free to use SteamCMD: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamCMD

Where do you get those lies from? I'd kinda get it if Steam's documentation for publishers was behind a NDA wall but it's public.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Ok, sorry I was wrong. So I can filter out drmed games on steam, right?

Steamcmd looks unrelated, why would I need to use it? Also the wiki page only confirms my earlier thought about steam ui being horrible, whole article is avout how to install it and what kinds of problems exist, not telling how to do some basic things with it.

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