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  1. Re:Arkham Knight Has Denuvo? by Cederic · · Score: 2 · on DRM Company Denuvo Forgets To Secure Its Server, Leaks Two Years Of Emails (torrentfreak.com)

    Can we no longer trust Valve to tell us when a game contains 3rd-party DRM?

    Never did: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...

    I'm not sure how much control Valve have over third party DRM notifications. I suspect it's a "Please indicate" but not mandatory.

    http://forums.steampowered.com... does have a commentator suggesting that Denuvo isn't DRM. I'm not sure how they reached that conclusion but it may be worth sanity checking Valve's definition for DRM too - could be that Denuvo slips through a crack.

  2. Re:Not all that uncommon in reality by minijedimaster · · Score: 2 · on Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else

    Not every game on Steam requires Steam to be open and logged in to play. There are many that are 100% DRM free. You can literally take the folder, move it and still launch the game even if steam is closed out completely. You just need Steam to install it initially then you can do what you wish with the game. Examples of some of these games: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li... http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...

  3. Re:Yay DRM by Daniel+Hoffmann · · Score: 2 · on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS

    I believe you can, as long as the game does not use the steam DRM or its own DRM that depends on steam being running. If the game uses steamworks for some kind of feature either that specific feature will not work, the game will crash when you try to use it, or the game will crash when you try to launch it.

    A quick google search yielded these two lists of games that can be bought on steam and played without it:
    http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/T...
    http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/Li...

  4. Re:Open Source! At least it isnt DRM laden like St by Trepidity · · Score: 3, Informative · on Valve Working on GNU/Linux Native Open Source OpenGL Debugger

    It's difficult as a regular Steam user to get that distinction right, though, because the interface is completely non-transparent about which games have DRM and which don't. You cannot filter the list of available games by "DRM-free only" and choose to vote with your dollars for those. And the majority of games do have DRM (either third-party or Steamworks), so buying blindly is unlikely to get you a DRM-free title. That's a difference with GOG, because there you can know what you're buying is DRM-free.

    There are some third-party sites that are attempting to compile the consumer information that Steam doesn't want to give you, but it's a bit hit-or-miss, and most Steam users don't know about such lists.