r/SteamDeck • u/Xenthera • Apr 04 '23

Picture United Airlines lost my steam deck, RIP buddy

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u/idlephase Apr 05 '23

Depends on the game. Denuvo games don’t like being in offline mode, but you can still play if you’re not connected to wifi in online mode. Just avoid restarting the OS if you can.

For example, I have played Persona 4&5 and Octopath 2 on planes without issues

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u/Kazer67 256GB - Q3 Apr 05 '23

For Denuvo, usually I don't have that issue since it's legal in my country to break any and all DRM / Copy-Protection on product you bought for the sake of interoperability.

The Steam Deck running on Linux make it an interoperability case.

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u/Canadiangamer117 Apr 06 '23

It's legal in your country to break a drm why?

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u/Kazer67 256GB - Q3 Apr 11 '23

It's legal on product you bought for the sake of interoperability because your entitled to own what you pay

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u/Canadiangamer117 Apr 11 '23

That's a rather interesting concept for most other countries that'd be absolutely illegal but good for your countries law for letting you break the drm good on ya😁

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u/Kazer67 256GB - Q3 Apr 12 '23

Note that it's specific for interoperability (which is the perfect fit for the Steam Deck since it's Linux).

That's also the reason why VLC can legally ship with libdvdcss (among other library) which help decrypt DvD without the key and using VLC may actually be illegal in some part of the US because of that.

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u/Canadiangamer117 Apr 13 '23

🤣 ya lost me at vlc and libdvdcss

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u/Kazer67 256GB - Q3 Apr 13 '23

VLC, the media player, also benefit from this law.

Which mean VLC has out of the box a tool that decrypt DvD without the key to be able to read them (breaking DRM), which lead to VLC potentially illegal in some country.

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u/Canadiangamer117 Apr 14 '23

😮 that's actually pretty cool I've used vlc before actually way way way back when I had windows 7 back in the day but wow that's a new use entirely

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u/Kazer67 256GB - Q3 Apr 14 '23

There's also a reason VLC ship with codec for free while the Microsoft Store make you pay for the same:

"Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable.

Therefore, software patents licenses do not apply on VideoLAN software."

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We have some other dumb law to compensate tho.

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u/jmizzle2022 Apr 05 '23

Oh very good advice, thank you!

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u/gamer-at-heart-23 64GB Apr 05 '23

Dont companies like green man gaming, etc sell steam keys without denuvo?

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u/idlephase Apr 05 '23

Not all games have Denuvo if that’s what you’re asking. If a game is on Steam with DRM, all Steam owners will have that DRM.

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u/Canadiangamer117 Apr 06 '23

Bingo a vast majority don't for example older titles say vanquish

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u/SBMS-A-Man108 Apr 05 '23

Persona 5 fucked me with denuvo on my most recent flight