/g/, is steam a botnet too?

>>59391743
Yes.

>>59391743

its the definition of a botnet anon

acording to /g/ everything is a botnet

>>59391743
The problem with steam is primary DRM. You don't own what you buy. Use something DRM-free like GOG at least.

use gog

>he doesn't GOG

>>59391743
By definition it sort of is
please don't hurt me op I know you made this as a joke

>>59391772
/thread

>>59391743
Are you retarded or sumthing

>>59391772
It isn't my fault most things are a botnet.

>>59391772
the truth hurts doesn't it?

>>59391743
>proprietary
>uses DRM
>Has to be connected to Steam servers at all times
>VAC literally scans your computer for game hacking software
gee I don't know Bill

>>59391772
Most things are proprietary.

How to spot botnet:
1. Is it free software? If not, it's botnet. You cannot prove that it isn't so you have to assume it's acting against your interests.

>>59394376
>has to be connected to Steam servers at all times
no it doesn't

>>59394376
If VAC did that, it would be much more effective

>>59394497
It does though, at least running processes
There was a large controversy a few years ago where Gaben admitted that VAC monitors DNS
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/18/gabe-newell-responds-to-valve-anti-cheat-spying-rumours/

>>59391743
Every single thing you could ever possibly run on a computer is a "botnet" according to the little kiddos. For a while, they were using it as a substitute for "proprietary" but nowadays there's plenty of FOSS stuff out there that's "le botnet" now, too. Kids are weird. Nothing else to say.

>>59391743
>Paying for games

>>59394704
>playing videogames

>>59394756
>Having fun

>>59394541
vac only checks for things being injected into the game process. other anticheat software does scan your pc, however. for example esea or cevo

Not if you installit on a hardened gentoo with firejail and an exclusive tor network.

>>59391743

Steam is the worst piece of botnet garbage piece of shit I have ever seen.

Not only does it use 10% CPU in the background, it's faggot "steam overlay" cuts framerate by 20% even if you disable it because it doesn't get deactivated if you disable it, it still runs but it doesn't show the overlay.

Don't get me started on the always online DRM aswell.................IJBGHTUEIA

>>59394834
you can disable overlay you retarded troglodyte

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>tfw VAC runs in user mode
>mfw I bypass it by running my cheat as root

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>>59394834
That's a load of shit, anon. My Steam is using 0.1% of my CPU and the Steam overlay is hardly noticable.

Yes, everything is botnet. /g/ is botnet as well.

>>59394963
are the botnets in some sort of mega-botnet that has a botnet of botnets?

>>59394781
>Doing anything

>>59394951
I'll gas you fucking cheating niggers

>>59391851
The problem is imbeciles like you. Steam is a shop and not DRM. Some games have DRM but it was applied by publisher. Considering that you are so braindead that you can't open games folder and copy\paste your game, you should actually use GOG and get the fuck out back to /v/.

>>59395758
Ever heard of the SteamAPI, SteamWorks? Yep. They're DRM. Steam offer their own DRM

>>59394794
no, it checks for more than that. othwr wise csgo hacka would need ver get banned

>>59396012
> thinking vac is anything more than a glorified packet-checker

>steam
install gwentoo

>>59394834
But how can you tell that the framerate is better if you don't have the steam overlay to tell you the framerate?

>>59396163
Because game can show you FPS?

>>59394446
>want to play Mass Effect 1 (Offline game) through steam without internet connection
nope, no chance.

>>59396890
What is offline mode you nipple dicked fuck monkey

>>59396925
I wish I was at home to try this, you shitty wanker.

>>59396925

The mode you have to verify what games you play off line while connected to the internet in order to play them with out a connection?

>>59396981
No, not that one. The mode where you just log in and play offline.

>>59391772
it's because they fell for the free software communism meme.

>>59391743
No, it's a game distribution platform.

>>59394834
>Not only does it use 10% CPU in the background
Windows user detected.

>>59395758
And then there are /v/ermins like this guy who are always riding gaben's dick.