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by devwastaken 154 days ago
Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM. epic and gog both work in heroic launcher. Steam games are no longer usable in systems less than 4GB memory.

Steam has removed all its 32-bit wine compatibility, minimal launcher, and is now no different than any other chromium bloatware. they chose the easiest path and are still struggling to make it work.
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akimbostrawman 154 days ago
>Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM

What exactly do you mean? 3rd party launcher like playnite and lutris work just fine with both of them. Steam DRM is also optional and enabled by the game developer.

The client can be pretty rough but no alternative offers even half of there features.

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devwastaken 144 days ago
Steam DRM is not optional. Thats why launchers dont support it.
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tmtvl 153 days ago
> Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM.

I think Ubisoft games would like a word. I can't finish AssCreed Brotherhood because the Ubisoft launcher wants me to use a 2FA key which I don't have any more.

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