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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago

Steam made an estimated $1.7 billion in September, an all-time new record

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Steam made an estimated $1.7 billion in September, an all-time new record

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alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 days ago
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New estimates from Alinea Analytics show that Steam could have broken a $1.7 billion September record, and Valve's own F2P games are raking in big bucks.
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    23 hours ago

    99% will fail to launch

    Yeah that’s not true. Only games that use Steam DRM will not work without Steam (though you can get them to work, hence the existence of piracy).

    Steam DRM is completely optional on the part of the devs. If you don’t like that you can’t just launch the .exe or whatever, then take it up with the devs who chose that DRM scheme.

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      Ok gimme am example of a game that you can launch directly then. All the ones I tried didn’t work

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        https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38523697-DRM-FREE-GAMES/?appid=274190

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        Risk of Rain (the original), last I checked worked without steam. You just need to delete or relocate the steam_api dll file.

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