DRM free distribution

[skrzyp]

I don't want to sing up and participate in those sketchy platforms like Steam who don't actually sell you the binary, but rather a "right to use it" on their crazy license.

I want to just buy a distribtuion archive w/ binary, without any DRMs, license managements or protections, for reasonable price, without needing to register anywhere else and sell my data or "analytics" agreement. I think many others would appreciate that too.

Can you make this possible?

[GenuineSounds]

Throwing shade on Github about Steam, meh; however, I'll second the motion for DRM free distribution at least.

[paladin-t]

I understand, but I do not yet know whether or not would make distribution through other stores.

[paladin-t]

I feel so sad, when thinking of it wouldn't be even possible to launch the software after the store's death and mine someday. But exploring and sharing is inalienable of the community, and that's the most convenient part of Steamworks; in another hand, I'd pay more attention to improve the software rather than maintaining across multiple marketplaces.

I'd check the possibility to make it DRM free recently, but still lets you use the facilities when you want.

[mva1985]

I've actually supported this project on Steam but am unable to use it with my laptop setup.

b8 is the only reason I even have an account on Steam.

I would love to just have a Windows binary for my laptop. I'd even pay a second time for that.
Thanks for considering at least

[Low-power]

I didn't aware that this program has a DRM protection until I bought it; this makes me regretting for a while. It took me an entire day to make it running without a Steam client.

I later realized there's another issue; while Steam Workship provides an excellent way to share BASIC8 disks, there is almost nothing else. This means it would be very hard to find software for BASIC8 without Steam. I think the disk import (from '.b8', '.png' or plain text file) feature is basicly useless since its software library is limited to Steam Workship.

[hopelessdecoy]

You could just disable the Steam DRM but still have it distributed through Steam. I know other software that does this (Asperite, AGK, Krita). Might not be perfect but at least then I can run Basic8 without Steam running too!