[mrighele]

Steam’s DRM “just works” and that’s why gamers don’t complain much about it. Also it’s the best way to play games under Linux.

I have a few hundreds games in steam and while maybe one day I may lose access to all of them it’s a risk I am willing to take because:

- I don’t think it will happen anytime soon because it’s a money making machine. The biggest risk for me is Microsoft acquiring it and stopping any work on Linux related stuff (I have been using steam solely on Linux for the past 7+ years)

- Even if I lose access to the library, Steam will have done a better job that I could. I know for sure that I lost the media for the first steam-enabled games I bought but I can still play them.

[paulmd]

> I have a few hundreds games in steam

those are rookie numbers, a couple months of humble bundle and your library can be full of shit you'll never play

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Steam's DRM is also completely optional, publishers are under no obligation to use it and many don't.