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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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