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

submitted 2 months 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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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

OK, sure. If Valve bans you, how are you going to install your games?

I know that on GOG I can download the installer, back it up, share it with friends and family, and they can install it. Do the same with Steam.

And finally, Valve is a USAian company. GOG is European. That is pretty important.

[-] Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

As long as the game on steam isn't using a DRM like Denuvo, Enigma, etc then I can backup and play them even without steam.

It's just that if the game uses Steam DRM then I'd have to use a steam emulator like Goldberg/gbe_fork to play the game. Sometimes you'd also have to remove SteamStub DRM from the game exe files using Steamless.

GOG is easier since you don't need to mess with steam emulators and such. You also won't run into the issue of having to manually create windows registry entries that some old games need. GOG installers will create those windows registry entries for you.