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I've never used Steam and I don't really know how it works, but i gather that it is some sort of a subscription service for PC games. If one bought Keen on it, would one receive an intact copy to one's on disk, in an original 1990/1991 form that could be modded? Or does it somehow have to be played only by logging into Steam?
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That's a good question. It would be kind of absurd to have no access to your games without running Steam -- like if all your games were on the Steam Cloud? I'll have a look.Keening_Product wrote:It does download the game files to your disk though, doesn't it TSK? Or have they been sucked into some wrapper binary which cannot be broken apart easily?
Okay, I found it.
Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common and there you should see all the folders containing your games. If you have the Commander Keen pack thing, just run the batch files for whichever episode you want to play. It uses DosBox fullscreen.
So yes. You can games you bought on Steam without running Steam. The only benefit to running Steam while playing is the Overlay (screenshots, voice chat, type chat, video, group chat) and Steam Achievements, since it records your progress.
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Any DOSBox games on Steam have no DRM included with them (Doom's first release did but id quickly went back on that decision) so after you have bought and downloaded through Steam then I guess you are free to do what you want with them. The Commander Keen pack only has Steam Cloud as a feature for it to backup your save data, there are no Steam Achievements for it. If you want to use the Steam Overlay then you need to fiddle with the DOSBox config.
You can put Steam into offline mode for up to 30 days too if you don't want to be online using it although it won't record gameplay time (or Steam Achievements for other games) in this way.
I'll also point out that Steam itself isn't a DRM but Steamworks is which can be incorporated into a game's .exe file to make it only run when Steam is running and the account is authorised to play that game.
You can put Steam into offline mode for up to 30 days too if you don't want to be online using it although it won't record gameplay time (or Steam Achievements for other games) in this way.
I'll also point out that Steam itself isn't a DRM but Steamworks is which can be incorporated into a game's .exe file to make it only run when Steam is running and the account is authorised to play that game.
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