inclementimmigrant to GamesEnglish · 15 hours agoEpic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much morewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square54linkfedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareRamRabbitlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·13 hours agoYeah, GOG is at least offering DRM-free games. That gives them one big plus over Steam and is why I maintain a library on both. On the other hand, I can’t name a single thing Epic does better than Steam and GOG.
minus-squareMagnificentSteiner@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 hours agoMany games are DRM free on Steam too. Cyberpunk 2077 for example. The Steam DRM is at the publisher/developer’s discretion, not Steam’s. Steam DRM itself is also trivially bypassed which is surely intended.
minus-squareLemmyEntertainYou@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoFWIW a lot of games on Steam are also entirely DRM-free it’s just not overly obvious without checking on PCGamingWiki.
Yeah, GOG is at least offering DRM-free games. That gives them one big plus over Steam and is why I maintain a library on both.
On the other hand, I can’t name a single thing Epic does better than Steam and GOG.
Many games are DRM free on Steam too. Cyberpunk 2077 for example. The Steam DRM is at the publisher/developer’s discretion, not Steam’s.
Steam DRM itself is also trivially bypassed which is surely intended.
FWIW a lot of games on Steam are also entirely DRM-free it’s just not overly obvious without checking on PCGamingWiki.
Free games