And thats here I stopped reading again. As said - original premise faulty, the rest is irrelevant.

The DRM free games on Steam do not need the client, so there is no need for "any temporary client targeting lousy hacks", whatever you say next fals apart.

Fine, keep attacking the strawman you created rather than going back and reading my first post through to figure out why you probably should have done that in the first place, as then you could just have admitted that allegedly DRM-free games may not be for everyone, especially if one wants to vote with their wallet in favor of seeing even more officially DRM-free games to be released or is not blind to the role Steam has played in bringing this age of temporary client foolery on us.

the DRM free games on Steam are DRM free no matter what you think of Steam, or if people vote with their vallets. if they are 'official' or 'unpffical' etc.

None of these points have any effect on the game files being DRM free or not. This is why all these things you are sying is irrelevant

And now I am going to ask you to point where exactly did I say otherwise? Spoiler alert: I didn't, at best you could nitpick that I keep adding the word "allegedly" any time I refer to games on Steam that may not have DRM, but that is me only reminding everyone that should they not wish to risk ending up with a DRM'ed game, they probably should stick to buying only officially DRM-free games.

But I guess this is not going anywhere as you clearly are unwilling to read what other people wrote before replying to them and that is such a bad reputation hit at least in my eyes that I may as well try my best to not respond to your post at all from now on.

Andd that's why I keep saying that your posts are irrelevant, beacuse I was talking about the DRM free games, so your posts, in your owwn admition, is then not about the DRM free state of this games, which was all I was tlking about, but then something-something-Steam instead.