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How can this be?! I thought games on Steam had to have DRM.
Nope, it's an optional module of Steamworks. (And using Steamworks at all is also optional.)
Yes, I was trying to make a joke, since you read it so often, that games on Steam always have DRM.
What steam provides is weak and optional.
I tried and failed to make a joke.
Did you edit it or was it really like that when I replied?