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Turkey prepares to block Steam and Epic Games. Hello, piracy! (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by kaptan@hackerz.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hey everyone.

Government of Türkiye is pushing a new regulation that would force Steam, Epic, PlayStation etc. to appoint local representatives. If they refuse? The whole platform gets banned.

They also want full access to user data and the power to arbitrarily ban "risky" content. This isn't just a Turkish thing, governments everywhere are trying to pull this crap. They think blocking platforms will control us? All they are doing is driving people straight to VPNs and piracy. If you make it impossible to buy games legally, we'll just sail the high seas for free.

Thanks for the boost, I guess.

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 2 days ago

Yes. You can even copy the installed files and just launch the executable on another machine that doesn't even have Steam installed.

[-] Lipriv30@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 day ago

How do you play games without launching steam? Can you give me a quick step by step instructions in this matter?

[-] DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

So long as the game is DRM-free, you just go to the install location and run the exe file.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

not really? you need goldberg emu or another steam emulator, otherwise games will get confused that they can't communicate with a steam client for achievements and whatnot

but yeah it's just about dropping 2 files besides the game exe and done

[-] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You need to turn off the overlay. The games not confused it's the fact your trying to use steam with out it being there and the dll that calls for it can't find it.

Delete the dll or slap a txt files in the root folder with the appid and dll will see that and disengage.

Most people just delete the dll since you arnt using it anyways and it's wasted memory

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The games not confused it's the fact your trying to use steam with out it being there and the dll that calls for it can't find it.

that's what I meant by the game being confused. that the game depends on steam, but does not find it anywhere, so cannot work, unless a steam emulator is used as a standin.

[-] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You are wrong, steam emulators are only necessary if the game uses steam DRM or relies on it for online functionality. You can try this with most indie games, or anything also sold on GOG.

You can remove the steam DRM wrapper as well quite easily if its the only one present.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

if the game uses steam DRM, steam emulators cant do anything with that. you additionally need a separate tool that strips the steam DRM

see here: https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator/blob/master/README.md

(Assuming the games have no DRM and use Steam for online).

but indeed, it seems not all games need it:

If you are a game developper and made the mistake of depending too much on the steam api and want to release of version of your game without it and don't want to rewrite your game, this is for you.

[-] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

The tool is "Steamless". I think there was a misunderstanding, games without steam DRM don't need an emulator. I never ran into one that lacked DRM but used the API with no fallback, thus requiring an emulator.

I am sure they exist though.