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Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho... by craftyguy on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @08:22PM (#17974823)
> This makes any purchase on Steam basically as safe as a physical purchase, resulting in Steam basically replacing physical game purchases on the PC.

Not entirely, since there's still some dependency on their client to put the game in 'offline mode', which requires phoning home to Valve.

A better example would be gog.com, which gives you the game binary/installer to download and no requirements for phoning home or any other shenanigans for being able to install/play it.

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Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho... by thirdsun on Thursday September 13, 2018 @01:07AM (#17976210)
It's my understanding that the DRM and phoning home is completely optional and up to the developer. Steam is happy to deliver your games DRM-free and without any dependency on their client if the developer/publsiher chooses to do so.
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Re:Apple can delete purchased movies from your library witho... by Lorkki on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:31AM (#17976727)
They don't really advertise it, but there's no requirement to use DRM on Steam: http://steam.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
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