alessandro@lemmy.ca to PC Gaming@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 days agoSony reportedly working on 'Cross-Buy' feature for unified game ownership between PlayStation 5 and PC — Leaked icons indicate Sony's answer to Xbox Play Anywhere is comingwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square18linkfedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down11
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minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down11·6 days agoFor sure. Unfortunately PC gamers wille at that shit right up without a moment’s hesitation. Just look at how popular steam is.
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·6 days agoYou do know that something like 75-99% of games on steam don’t have any drm, right? You can play most games right from the exe.
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down11·6 days agoNone ive ever purchased have been drm/launcher free. Even binding of Isaac and terraria need that bloated garbage excuse for a launcher open to run.
minus-squareBluegrass_Addict@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoyou probably don’t even know what, or where the executable is located for any of those games
minus-squaresabin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoRunning the app directly through steam/ the freedesktop launcher steam makes should work without internet access
minus-squareBluegrass_Addict@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agohttps://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43 no INTERNET needed, only wifi or hardwired local network
minus-squareTachyonTele@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·6 days agoI don’t think you’ve ever tried.
minus-squareTlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoTerraria is precisely the game I ran from executable alone.
For sure. Unfortunately PC gamers wille at that shit right up without a moment’s hesitation. Just look at how popular steam is.
You do know that something like 75-99% of games on steam don’t have any drm, right? You can play most games right from the exe.
None ive ever purchased have been drm/launcher free. Even binding of Isaac and terraria need that bloated garbage excuse for a launcher open to run.
you probably don’t even know what, or where the executable is located for any of those games
Running the app directly through steam/ the freedesktop launcher steam makes should work without internet access
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/46BD-6BA8-B012-CE43
no INTERNET needed, only wifi or hardwired local network
I don’t think you’ve ever tried.
Terraria is precisely the game I ran from executable alone.