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.
Yes. You can even copy the installed files and just launch the executable on another machine that doesn’t even have Steam installed.
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It’s literally in the documentation and has been clear since day 1 of steam. If people fucking read the manual and faqs they would know.
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.
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I’m not sure the majority of games is DRM free though. But youve got a point.
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It is the standard. It’s literally the default. Its mandatory for devs to opt in. There are zero cases on all of steam where drm is the default.
How do you play games without launching steam? Can you give me a quick step by step instructions in this matter?
So long as the game is DRM-free, you just go to the install location and run the exe file.
not really? you need goldberg emu or another steam emulator, otherwise games will get confused that they can’t communicate with a steam client for achievements and whatnot
but yeah it’s just about dropping 2 files besides the game exe and done
You need to turn off the overlay. The games not confused it’s the fact your trying to use steam with out it being there and the dll that calls for it can’t find it.
Delete the dll or slap a txt files in the root folder with the appid and dll will see that and disengage.
Most people just delete the dll since you arnt using it anyways and it’s wasted memory
You are wrong, steam emulators are only necessary if the game uses steam DRM or relies on it for online functionality. You can try this with most indie games, or anything also sold on GOG.
You can remove the steam DRM wrapper as well quite easily if its the only one present.
if the game uses steam DRM, steam emulators cant do anything with that. you additionally need a separate tool that strips the steam DRM
see here: https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator/blob/master/README.md
but indeed, it seems not all games need it:
The tool is “Steamless”. I think there was a misunderstanding, games without steam DRM don’t need an emulator. I never ran into one that lacked DRM but used the API with no fallback, thus requiring an emulator.
I am sure they exist though.