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automatic "DRM"/"DRM-free" tag

abhijith · 2018-04-12T21:09:26Z

I prefer to buy DRM-free games. I understand that this webstore doesn't impose DRM and most games here are DRM-free anyway but it would be nice to know for sure at a glance if a game here is DRM-free or not before I purchase it. P.S. I wasn't able to figure out how to search the forums (from the app atleast) so I'm not sure if this is a duplicate suggestion.

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Deleted account6 years ago

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leafoAdmin6 years ago (1 edit) (+2)

Thanks for the suggestion. Tags are optional, and many people skip them, so it might make more sense to ask the developer if their game contains any DRM outright. In any case, in the meantime I added a "drm-free" suggested tag.

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catpig5 years ago

Hello,

to follow up on this, currently 209 out of 166 181 games on itch are tagged as DRM-free.... https://itch.io/games/tag-drm-free

I don't know how putting games onto itch works, but clearly the current system isn't working as hoped :/

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firecat5 years ago

How about a "view files" kinda like Google does with google drive & github, there is no need to have a thumbnail just basic viewing can help understand the customer if the game really is DRM-free since all files should be easy to view.

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catpig5 years ago

That wouldn't really help, DRM is in the code. And even if the devs were willing to upload the source code (they're probably not), who's gonna spend months reading a game's source code to find this out ;)

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