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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Part of me wishes that Valve would simply tell these publishers that require 3rd party launchers and accounts to run their games to fuck off their platform; at the very least they warn about it on the store page I suppose. It's not like Steam is any less of a DRM platform after all (though you can access the API to download games on unsupported platforms like OpenBSD).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

To my knowledge steam shows the info on the store page when a third party account is required