Never thought that being a reader of GamingOnLinux and Debian mailing lists would intersect so directly. But look at what just arrived at my mailbox. That is right, Valve is giving away all their past and future games to Debian Developers.
Read the original post at debian-devel-announce. Disclaimer: I am not a Debian Developer. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
QuoteHi all,
At $dayjob for Collabora, we've been working with Valve on SteamOS, which is based on Debian. Valve are keen to contribute back to the community, and I'm discussing a couple of ways that they may be able to do that [0].
Immediately though, they've offered a free subscription to any Debian Developer which provides access to all past and future Valve produced games [1]!
If you're interested, and a DD, simply mail [email protected] with a mail signed by a key in the Debian keyring, and he'll send you back a redemption code to add in Steam. If you haven't heared from him in a couple of days, you can also prod me at [email protected] as he may happen to be on holiday that week.
Happy gaming,
Neil
[0] If anyone has any specific ideas, drop me a mail :)
[1] List at http://deb.li/91yz, but excluding Steam Greenlight.
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That is fine for me. I was only trying to make the point that DRM free games on Steam are a thing. That is it. I am not trying to convince you to use Steam. One of the biggest annoyances I have with Steam is the fact that they allow 3rd party DRM on their games and do so without informing us about it ALL the time. This is however mostly an issue with developers and publishers not providing accurate information to Valve. Some games DO have information about 3rd party DRM. But unfortunately not all.
Steam
usuallysometimes tells you about DRM in the system requirements of a game under the label "other requirements", see Batman for example. But they still get flamed by their community for not being verbose and accurate enough about it. Rightly so.For that, there's Enhanced Steam, where the warning is a lot more prominent.
Upon thinking about it, I also know now why I'm so lax about DRM lately. It got utterly defeated during the last years. Not dead yet but, you know, smelling funny.
Especially on Linux where I can't name a single DRM'd game.
I really switched to assuming that a game I buy hasn't DRM if I'm not explicitly told about any. That's new and I didn't recognize that part of my behaviour untill now.
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/forum/topic/456