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Shabbaman · 06-08-2010, 09:38

Nobody knows. Valve is considering removing the DRM from games they no longer support, but since they're still supporting all their games it's pointless to debate that. And Valve is not the publisher of the game, it's up to 2K what they do with it. There are two sides to this: playing multiplayer will be impossible, as you can't join servers. But this is something that doesn't have anything to do with Steam, but rather with the fact that 2K wants to control who's playing online. This is the ultimate form of copyright protection for most games (since most games are played online these days). You can play single player in offline mode, so that should still be possible. For most games there are workarounds anyway.

FYI, there's a discussion on Steam here.

06-08-2010, 09:38	#10
Shabbaman Administrator Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Costa La Haya Posts: 8,494	Nobody knows. Valve is considering removing the DRM from games they no longer support, but since they're still supporting all their games it's pointless to debate that. And Valve is not the publisher of the game, it's up to 2K what they do with it. There are two sides to this: playing multiplayer will be impossible, as you can't join servers. But this is something that doesn't have anything to do with Steam, but rather with the fact that 2K wants to control who's playing online. This is the ultimate form of copyright protection for most games (since most games are played online these days). You can play single player in offline mode, so that should still be possible. For most games there are workarounds anyway. FYI, there's a discussion on Steam here. __________________ "Our spam is backed with COMETS!"