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goodbye to DRM-free games on Steam

Steam is the video game store that has allowed the PC to remain a gaming platform more within the current panorama in which it competes with PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo. However, it suffers from a cardinal sin that many users do not forgive, which is the need to be connected almost always to verify the legitimacy of the game that we want to launch.

The famous DRM

This need to verify with the servers that the legality of the copy that we have installed works thanks to the DRM that the game carries and that prevents us from launching it anywhere other than through the ecosystem created by Valve. This removes any possibility (for now) that in the future, once the platform itself closes, our purchases will be available if the servers are taken down.

That fear has led many gamers to prefer options like GoG. The CD Projekt RED shop in that has always been transparent or allows us to download versions without DRM to the PC that we can install, copy and manipulate your files anywhere without having to carry a connection on your back that verifies all the time that the purchase belongs to us. What’s more, the best of all is that we can make a backup and rest easy for years to come.

So why are we talking about DRM-free games on Steam? Because GoG, until recently, had a downloader linked to the Valve store that was the jewel in the crown of PC users.

GoG.

Goodbye GoG Connect

GoG quite discreetly launched an initiative that tried to bring Steam users to its store. And the way he came up with was as genius as it was risky: offer via GoG Connect a DRM-free digital copy of purchases they had on Steam. You just had to connect the two libraries so that the store from CD Projekt RED to add those titles that you had bought (not all of them were there) and offer you the opportunity to download them without paying an extra euro.

That allowed thousands of users finally have files backup of your purchases in the Valve store even if it was in another application, to store them on personal hard drives, own servers or in their contracted cloud services… but the dream ended. And he has done it suddenly, without warning from the Poles who have turned off the GoG Connect faucet overnight. Maybe due to pressure from Valve? Through the intercession of the distributors themselves who were seeing how they lost the option of selling a few more units?

Be that as it may, the players who knew of the existence of GoG Connect have been left with a span of noses and returning to the harsh reality that all your purchases on Steam have a DRM like a castle that prevents them, in the future, from having their own versions capable of running without having to be connected to the Internet.

That said, goodbye to the dream of DRM-free games on Steam. Again.

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