Can we play Steam games without using their stupid launcher? I hate it. It’s got more trackers than Google and burns my laptop battery to death on just Belatro.
God I fucking hate that launcher. Honestly, fuck all launchers unless you’re playing multiplayer. Can some one tell me how to get around this without pirating?
Yes? You have been able to basically since day 1 of steam. Games fall into two camps either it’s DRM enforced by the developer and your stuck with the client. And then there’s everything else.
For everything else you can use the appid to disable the client check, or just remove the single dll that hooks the steam services. Aka the overlay and cloud.
99% of games on steam outside of major triple A games on steam are entirely drm free. They literally just use a single dll for the steam stuff.
Iv bene making zips of steam games iv bought for over a decade now and they still just work years later.
And for games with mandatory drm they would have drm on gog too if they sold them there. But since they require drm gog won’t allow them.
Valve just doesn’t actually give a single fuck about drm one way or the other. It’s there if the dev wants it but doesn’t require it at all.
Even the whole offline check in thing is technically optional. Since that just doesn’t happen if you just remove the single dll file.
Can we play Steam games without using their stupid launcher? I hate it. It’s got more trackers than Google and burns my laptop battery to death on just Belatro.
God I fucking hate that launcher. Honestly, fuck all launchers unless you’re playing multiplayer. Can some one tell me how to get around this without pirating?
Yes? You have been able to basically since day 1 of steam. Games fall into two camps either it’s DRM enforced by the developer and your stuck with the client. And then there’s everything else.
For everything else you can use the appid to disable the client check, or just remove the single dll that hooks the steam services. Aka the overlay and cloud.
99% of games on steam outside of major triple A games on steam are entirely drm free. They literally just use a single dll for the steam stuff.
Iv bene making zips of steam games iv bought for over a decade now and they still just work years later.
And for games with mandatory drm they would have drm on gog too if they sold them there. But since they require drm gog won’t allow them.
Valve just doesn’t actually give a single fuck about drm one way or the other. It’s there if the dev wants it but doesn’t require it at all.
Even the whole offline check in thing is technically optional. Since that just doesn’t happen if you just remove the single dll file.
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