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Has the Deck turned off any other Steam users? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by danielquinn@lemmy.ca to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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I've been a Steam customer for a very long time, having spent a few thousand dollars over the years with them. Like many of you, I've got a (small?) group of games that I bought and barely-if-ever played, and I'm cool with that. As they say, piracy is a service problem, and Steam is just... easy.

That was until I bought my Deck. Suddenly, I had two devices on which I could play my games: my proper gaming rig upstairs and my Deck plugged into the TV downstairs.

I also however, have a kid that likes video games, so sometimes I let her play a few games on the TV... and that's where everything breaks down. If she's playing Lego Marvel on the Deck, my copy of Dyson Sphere Program flakes out upstairs with a warning that "someone else is playing a game, so this game will have to shut off" or some nonsense like that.

I'm suddenly face to face with the fact that I don't actually own my games and those few thousand dollars weren't spent on what I expected. It's... enraging to put it gently.

I can appreciate that there would be an attempt to prevent me from playing the same game on two devices (though I think that's bullshit too), but to prevent me from playing two different games on two different machines when both are legally purchased running on my own hardware is not ok.

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[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Steam notifies for third party DRM, but not for the games that do/don't use Steamworks DRM. There are games on Steam that are completely DRM free and will launch from the exe file without Steam running at all, but there's no way to tell if Game X is one of those other than word of mouth.

[–] Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh! That’s somewhat interesting to know.

But it’s worth noting that while word of mouth is one way, we can always just try launching the game without Steam to find out.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Well, you have to buy the game to try launching it without Steam. Or ask someone who did, of course. It'd be nice to know before buying.

Do note that the default shortcuts Steam uses are Steam dependent - they're "steam://" addresses that tell Steam to load the game, not shortcuts to the game's raw executable.