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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by maccard on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:53AM (#35579412)
Ok but that's a very different problem to what you said about not being able to launch a game without launching steam.

> And it's usually not optional.

That's not Steam's fault.

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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by usrusr on Saturday April 15, 2023 @07:57AM (#35579788)
They might offer a small block of metadata indicating which parts of the API the change uses in its current incarnation. Would fit in nicely with the details about which platforms it can run on.
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Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:25AM (#35580889)
Valve's own games can't be played without Steam. If Steam isn't running when you open Portal 2, Steam will be launched automatically. If you uninstall Steam, Portal 2 just won't start.

It would be one thing if Valve was setting an example that publishers were choosing to ignore, but that's not what's happening.

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