Turkish government proposes legislation that would throttle Steam and other gaming platforms into unusability if they don't comply with demands for company data and content removal
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Companies that fail to deliver their information within five days would face escalating fines and up to 90% bandwidth restriction.

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.

  • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      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

      (Assuming the games have no DRM and use Steam for online).

      but indeed, it seems not all games need it:

      If you are a game developper and made the mistake of depending too much on the steam api and want to release of version of your game without it and don’t want to rewrite your game, this is for you.

      • Liketearsinrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        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.