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The devs of Pay-day 2 are giving away free copies of the game until June 21st.
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Isn't that every online software store though?
Yes. Well, so some extent.
Some stores offers download if the runtime and executable. Offline games, of course.
And indie games generally do offer off-site play. Steam, does not, regardless of title.
This is the only thing that just infuriates me about steam. No matter what game you run, steam has to be running as well. Even if you're offline, it just needs to run no matter what.
It's annoying as hell, but that isn't stealing my personal info as advertised by watercat.
It's probably running as a background process then.
I'm not sure how the process works.
I can also confirm direct launching games downloaded through steam works. the game still downloads onto your computer so why wouldn't it direct launch, just check your steam folder. playing games through steam or while it is running has never caused me any lag issues or major problems.
so you are making a assumption about a program you have never used before. there are lots of free games on steam as well and I have found a lot of free or fairly cheap great games there that I would have likely never found if steam did not advertise them. it is up to the players how they spend their money, nobody is forced to buy anything.
I remember directly launching and having steam still pop up first and had to enable offline mode before I could do anything. I don't use steam or play steam games too often so I don't know how to play the games without the steam client legally.
First gotta launch the steam client with a steam account. Then you have to go through options to restart steam into offline mode. Reason why you need to still connect and login is to verify your steam library through steam's DRM. Once you're in offline mode all online-only functions are disabled through the client: no store, community page, or update downloads for games.
Sometimes there are games that don't use Steam's DRM, and you can just launch them directly without ever launching steam.
you can access any of the games you have downloaded through steam by going into the steam folder on your computer which should look something like this:
all games you download from steam are in there and most can be launched without steam running. the game is on your computer playing it through steam is just a convenient shortcut to it but going directly to the game folder to direct launch it is possible anytime. mabi chose to remove their direct launch so in this case you would have to use steam to play mabi however I won't blame steam for mabi's poor decisions.
That, was Steam's credibility who boosted the game's popularity.
That's literally 80% of my steam library, dude.
that money would be used for mabinogi, you could have help fund the game but no you wasted money on games you never play.
Yes, waste it on Gotchas which you "love" a lot :^)
Actually I've only paid for five of my Steam games. The others were free titles I've picked up or gifts from friends. Played through most of 'em too.