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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by mariusor on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:46AM (#46315099)
For purposes of backup I don't see that large of a difference between a single installer executable and a zipped folder that you'd get after installing a non DRMed game from Steam.
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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by unsnap_biceps on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:57PM (#46316149)
GOG has allowed third party backup software like https://github.com/Sude-/lgogdownloader to exist. I have a full offline mirror of my GOG library that I update monthly that will never happen with my Steam library.
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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by autoexec on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:04PM (#46316249)
The non-DRMed steam game will stop working after a while if you haven't logged into steam after a very long time. If steam ever went under, your locally installed single player games that work offline will stop working. Ask me how I know.

I've taken to getting a cracked copy of every steam game in my library so that steam can't screw me over again in the future.

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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by akimbostrawman on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:25PM (#46316522)
>I've taken to getting a cracked copy of every steam game in my library so that steam can't screw me over again in the future.

you can trivially crack any steam DRM game yourself within minutes.

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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by Rohansi on Thursday December 18, 2025 @02:27PM (#46317336)
Yup, and you can find open source "cracks" if you don't trust using a binary for it. It's barely DRM.
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