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PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. (arstechnica.com)
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PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.::The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can make backups of games through the backup and restore menu. I assume that's what he means, unless he's referring to the limited selection of Drm free games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Steam DRM is about the equivalent of having a lock that you can open with either a key or a security torx driver, it's not even riveted much less cast in one piece.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are those backups playable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you then restore them into Steam, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, they still require Steam to run, so it's not really an offline copy, it's a backup that you could restore if the files got corrupted and you didn't just want to re-download it. But, it still requires Steam, etc?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes. Was just explaining what was available / suggested by OP. It's definitely not the same as a DRM-free backup