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Iv been just zipping up my steam games and removing the single dll that hooks the overlay from my games for literally over a decade and those games just work on any computer I put them on basically.
The only steam games that it doesn't work are ones that dev opted into the steam drm. It's not remotely mandatory, it's a developer choice.
Valve gives zero fucks and steam could be entirely drm free right now if devs just choose to not use the drm option.
Valve is a market place, they make no actual perfect or pressure towards drm or no drm. Which frankly is what it should be. The marketplace shouldn't be forcing it's view point on the people selling their goods there if the marketplace didnt make or help make it.
Functionally the only difference between steam and gog is steam allows drm games. They arnt mandatory.
Valve is the ONLY optional marketplace like this. Every other market is either no drm no matter what which is fine, or only drm which is awful.
Seriously the majority of what steams "drm" people think of is just the fucking dll hooking into the client for the overlay, cloud, community, and market place. If you don't need that shit you can just remove it and you have a portable game.