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.