Kushan

Don’t these guys directly fund the war in Ukraine?

Most games should work actually, there will be exceptions but in general the game data is all that’s stored on the SD card, your saves and config data are stored in your user folder.

Some games get this wrong and store data in the game data folder but that’s heavily discouraged. Some games also conflate save data and config data which is annoying when jumping from different devices but that’s it.

At this stage we’re just going around in circles. Agree to disagree.

Your point is confused and all over the place, partly because you’re trying to attribute your own point to something I said.

The issue is you’re completely missing the point that I’m making, which is that Steam isn’t pushing DRM, it merely doesn’t prevent publishers from using it or implementing their own.

This goes back to OP’s post where they’re trying to suggest that Steam is bad because of DRM, when really Steam merely allows it rather than pushes for it.

You then tried to make a point about being beholden to Steam’s platform to download your games because it’s less convenient than backing them up yourself or downloading the DRM-free installer from GoG but all that is moot because the discussion was DRM vs not DRM. Saying that GoG giving you an offline installer that does the heavy lifting is a plus point in GoG’s favour from a consumer ease of use standpoint but if the only thing that’s stopping you from copying and pasting the folder of the game is not necessarily knowing what the dependencies are, well that’s just convenience rather than stripping away your rights.

And speaking of rights, you have the right to choose whatever platform you like based on the features that platform has.

The purpose was to tell you exactly what I stated - that Steam does not enforce the use of DRM and nothing more.

You’re the one that wants to extrapolate that statement to mean much more than it does.

The point you missed is that the use of DRM is on the publisher/developer and not Steam itself.

Who’s claiming Steam is a “de facto” seller of DRM-Free games?

Steam doesn’t enforce the use of its DRM (which is super easy to bypass anyway but that’s a side note).

Steam lets you publish your game on their platform and hand out as many keys as you like to resell on other platforms (at no cost) while still doing all the heavy lifting of hosting and distributing.

Steam doesn’t decide what kinds of titles get published on their platform any more than GoG does, so the bit about remasters, etc. is a bit weird. Besides you the user should get to decide what you want to buy and play.

I love GoG, but I love Steam as well. They’re not mutually exclusive and you can have both.