Years ago, Steam had a way to let you make backups of your games so you could more easily re-install them later. One of the options would have it make CD-R or DVD-R images so you could burn your backups to optical discs, though I imagine most people probably aren't doing that anymore.. It looks like Steam still has a way to create a backup of a game though.
whaaaaa? i thought you did it in protest for your buddy jimmy!
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The same goes for any other game you buy from any of the other companies.
I'm pretty sure you can run the game executable directly if you wanted
to.
At least, I've run several Steam games that way. Steam doesn't
obfuscate the game's files. I thought Steam put a shortcut icon on your desktop for the games, too..
The launching from Steam is just a convenience, I thought.
You can also add non-Steam games to your Steam
menu so you can launch those from Steam if you want to.
I added Minecraft to my Steam menu once, so that my Steam friends knew
when I was playing Minecraft (since Steam lets your friends know what you're playing).
The same goes for any other game you buy from any of the other
companies.
Well, Gog provides a launcher but you can absolutely use their games
with no launcher at all, and they hand you, themselves, install files
for you to perform offline installs with no activation or anything.
Zoom-platform does something similar. I think Itch.io is DRM free for
the time being too.
The fun part is that Disney is a left-wing company. The idea lefties
are dogpiling on them because they are not pure enough would be so fundamentaly wonkers. I kind of wish it
Oh, nice. However, you'll never get that kind of trust from the big boys, though. ;)
i dont think disney is left wing. i just think it's an evil entity that wants to stay off the radar in regards to controversy.
They never gave too many details but you could tell the power
structures within the company were political motivated. In fact I
think they were already priorizing sexual orientation hires much,
much before it was fashionable or politically profitable at all.
If Disney was a company trying to stay off the radar they would not
Big game publishers can choke on my dick for all I care. I rarely buy a
game these days, and when I do it is always indie titles on sale.
There are many games out there. Too many. Offer is enormous, it dwarfes demand. No reason at all to spend big money on gaming, specially if you don't get to buy the game but you only license it. It is not justifiable
to pay 90 bucks to play the current iteration of Super Mario Kart when quality indie precision racers are bellow the 20 USD mark BEFORE
discounts.
The sort of stuff I consider buying always makes it out of Steam. It is
the stuff that sucks or wants to abuse your good will that refuses to be anywhere else. No big loss. Again, offer is so big that becoming hostage
to Steam is a conscious decision which is easily avoidable. People only
does because they don't think much about it.
Arelor wrote to Accession <=-
There are many games out there. Too many. Offer is enormous, it dwarfes demand. No reason at all to spend big money on gaming, specially if you don't get to buy the game but you only license it. It is not
justifiable to pay 90 bucks to play the current iteration of Super
Mario Kart when quality indie precision racers are bellow the 20 USD
mark BEFORE discounts.
With as many ads that I see on TV for services that keep track of
these things *for you*, I suspect that there must be quite a few
Interesting.. I don't recall ever seeing ads for anything like that.
I don't see how. ;) They are everywhere. They are specifically ads for phone apps so maybe you are tuning them out. I see them here, on TV and during YT videos, about as often as the celebrity endorsements of those two "Royal" phone video games.
I'm pretty sure you can run the game executable directly if you wanted to.
Try it. Hell, try to find the actual game executable and original game directory structure, even (especially if you install to default Steam directories). It's so intertwined into Steams subdirectories
At least, I've run several Steam games that way. Steam doesn't obfuscate
the game's files. I thought Steam put a shortcut icon on your desktop for
the games, too..
It optionally can, yes. However, using said desktop icon still loads up Steam (same goes for any other launcher said games are tied to) to launch
The launching from Steam is just a convenience, I thought.
I'm not so sure about that. I imagine there's probably some kind of exclusivity to where you can't just use any launcher for any game you want. If the launcher comes with the game, thay're going to make sure you can't bypass it, etc..
Either way, I don't think you can run the games you buy from a service like Steam or Ubisoft without the actual service you bought it from. Even if you were to find the actual executable, I'd guess it would still load the launcher that is originally tied to the game.
I just ran one of my Steam games by directly running its .exe (after clicking Manage > Browse Local Files).
It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games..
I'm not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from
running them directly.
I think the big money is in-game purchases. I've played War Thunder
since 2015 or so and when I look at the store history at how much I've
spent on in-game coin to get a specific plane, I weep.
Instead of grinding out to get to the higher levels, some people buy
the premium planes when they come out. I swear, us thunder dogs pile up
on the premium players when a new plane comes out. :)
Although, lately, it's all top-tier planes as premiums.
It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games.. I'm not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from running them directly.
Nightfox
I don't see how. ;) They are everywhere. They are specifically ads for
phone apps so maybe you are tuning them out. I see them here, on TV and during YT videos, about as often as the celebrity endorsements of those two "Royal" phone video games.
Where is "here"? Also, I have a paid YouTube subscription right now, so I don't see YouTube ads.. Also I don't use streaming services a whole lot; also
haven't noticed ads for them on broadcast TV.
I just ran one of my Steam games by directly running its .exe (after
clicking Manage > Browse Local Files).
With Steam still running, I'm guessing.
It still seems to me like Steam is mainly a mechanism to buy games.. I'm
not sure it does much (if any) obfuscation to prevent you from running them
directly.
Can you can shut down Steam (not even running in the background), and still run the game without it re-launching, or requiring Steam (or whatever other launcher/app the game is originally tied to) to be running?
I just tried this with Resident Evil 4. Shut down steam, ran "re4.exe", Steam opened, and asked if I would allow Valve to access my computer.. and now Steam is again running in my background.
Quite frankly, lots of microtransactions exist precisely because
the game is not fun to play, so you buy the right to skip it. Think
about it.
I mean, take a game such as BallisticNG. It has DLC, you buy the DLC,
well i think a lot of regular games have just cosmetic things now.
they learned that paying help you in the game hurts the game overall.
now mobile games, i believe don't follow that.
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