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Author: Haelwenn (lanodan) Monnier <contact@hacktivis.me>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 00:51:40 +0200
articles/drm-definition: Steam marks DRM
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<h2>Steam</h2>
<p>This is a rather controversial part, but I want to address it. My position on it is:</p>
<ul>
- <li>A lot of games rely on Steam (sometimes only for achievements): It becomes DRM if fixing the hard-dependency via mods or a shim is illegal or not;</li>
- <li>There's games on Steam ship with Denuvo and other DRM solutions, I don't remember if those are explicitly noted as such;</li>
+ <li>A lot of games rely on Steam (sometimes only for achievements): It becomes DRM if fixing the hard-dependency via mods or a shim is illegal;</li>
+ <li>There's games on Steam ship with Denuvo and other DRM solutions, I don't remember if those are explicitly noted as such (edit: It seems like Steam is marking those, not sure if systemically done though);</li>
<li>The main steam client (<code>steamcmd</code> even if official is excluded here) itself is a deeply annoying games installer with forced auto-updates, making usage of it offline a challenge. I'd call this a botnet, not DRM.</li>
</ul>
<p>Or said otherwise Steam is an unfortunate vector for DRM, quite like a CD player is with games trying to require physical copies of CDs to be present for playing. And just like the CD-era, it is hard to know if a particular game has DRM or not on Steam, much better to bet and support stores with a stance against DRM.</p>
