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Re:You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of bei... by everyone on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:38AM (#29981691)
"Steam tracks that without DRM"

Steam is DRM

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Re:You cannot play Diablo 2 resurrected after 30 days of bei... by baud147258 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:57AM (#29981973)
Some games sold via Steam don't integrate with the Steam APIs, so once it's installed, if launched directly with the executable, it won't force Steam to be running alongside it. So in _some_ cases, Steam isn't the DRM.
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