The first public Steam Hardware Survey came in April 2003, but there were private antecedents used by Valve earlier.
    • @weker01@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4•5 months ago

      This is the case in steam already. There are lots of (mainly Indy) games that will start fine without steam.

        • MattEnglish
          2•5 months ago

          You just rent a license on Steam. So it’s a definition of DRM.

          • @weker01@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            The definition of digital rights management is licensing? That does not sound right to me.

            A long time before steam the software sector moved to selling licenses only btw.

          • @Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
            1•5 months ago

            ik, but when you lose your account you can copy the non drmed games to another pc or smth.