DRM-Free Games

What are DRM-Free Games?

To find out more, the following is the definition of DRM according to Wikipedia:

Digital rights management (DRM) tools or technological protection measures (TPM) are a set of access control technologies for restricting the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. DRM technologies try to control the use, modification, and distribution of copyrighted works (such as software and multimedia content), as well as systems within devices that enforce these policies.

In the world of PC games, DRM is often referred to as copy-protection. There are various copy protection that have existed since the PC Game era began (1980s),

• physical media protection (laser hole or hidden file / sector on a floppy disk or CDROM),
• protection that refers to the manual / manual (for example 'insert word from page (x) paragraph (y) and word (z)')
• unique serial number protection (such as Windows 95/98)
• one-time online / phone registration protection (such as Windows 7 and above)
• periodic / always online protection (such as DVD games with Denuvo systems)
• protection via the gaming ecosystem client (Steam / Epic / Uplay / Origin)

DRM-Free Games is freely translated as games that are sold without the use of DRM or copy protection. Popularized by game distributor company GOG.com, DRM-Free Game is a concept that games should be physically owned without having to depend on the distributor (except when downloading them), so they can be moved (installed / copied) at will as long as we already have the rights. over these games. DRM-Free Game is the anti-thesis of the need that games must be protected to ensure that they are copyright protected.

Unlike games with DRM, which feel like we have lease rights (unless we have physical media and don't need to be online to use it), DRM-Free makes us feel like we have ownership rights.

Furthermore, it turns out that in gaming ecosystems such as Steam, Epic, Uplay and Origin, there are DRM-Free games smuggled-in because some game developers feel that they don't need to add DRM to their games.