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The Steam DRM wrapper is DRM -- there's no question about that. It's however not a proper full-blown anti-piracy solution because of the basic and standardized protection measures it employs. As Valve themselves says, it protects against extremely casual piracy (and tampering) and wouldn't prevent a motivated actor. But that's all besides the point for PCGW -- the site doesn't make a distinction between a "successful" DRM and a "so well documented and reverse engineered it's functionally useless" DRM. They're both equally treated as DRM on PCGW. That thread is insanely out of date and harkens back to the very early design and guidelines the site had over a decade ago. The modern approach and coverage of DRMs and stores (where Steam/Epic/etc games can be flagged as DRM-free) were introduced later sometimes around 2017-2019 or so. As I said in an earlier post, there's not a lot PCGW can do about this to improve it further as we've already built and implemented everything that's required to flag DRM-free titles on Steam/Epic/etc as such since years ago. Your issue, at its core, is with older unmaintained game pages and potentially incorrect DRM tracking within them and there's nothing the PCGW staff can really do about. Those pages and DRM claims needs to be gone through by an owner of said games, and then verified and updated/corrected where possible. And it is pretty much all of the game pages that would need to be gone through as most of them almost certainly lack an actual reliable reference to the DRM claim being made. And when it comes to that kind of job, PCGW is a community project where literally anyone can edit the game pages so anyone would be able to take on that kind of project upon themselves and go through and do it. The staff itself, however, will pretty much never have the time to do anything like that since their focus is on other areas.

also even valve literally says that steam wrapper is not anti piracy solution, it simply ensures that steamworks features works correctly in which steamworks is not drm as well Steam DRM (Steamworks Documentation)

Yeah spot on steam gOG are just stores with offline play not the always online crap like old Ubisoft DRM. Wiki needs to split launcher required from actual DRM to kill the FUD.

Yeah Elisha's DxWrapper is an important wrapper for this game Its included in this https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/102_Dalmatians:_Puppies_to_the_Rescue#Issues_fixed aswell :)!

All that info is already provided via icons and text, any specifics are mentioned in notes. Examples: Activation limit: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mirror's_Edge Constant Internet connection: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Battlefield_2042 Description of all DRM types: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_rights_management_(DRM) Custom Executable Generation seems to be obsolete btw: https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Digital_rights_management_(DRM)#Custom_Executable_Generation

I get a black screen when trying to start a race with DxWnd and the game crashes when starting the RACE button with dgVoodoo. Are there ways to fix these? Thanks in advance.

Is it a bad idea to add in a file structure for each game engine? Example: audio bin maps models scripts textures video (project name).exe

It is, indeed, a bad idea. PCGamingWiki is not a modders' resource website.

I can’t tell if you *have* patches you want uploaded or if you *want* patches to download…? Anyway, there’s a FilePlanet archive.org mirror with a ton of content: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet

After writing about Steam DRM, I came to a realization about Steam. I noted on the wiki article reasons that developers use Steam DRM. Two in particular stands out for the purpose of this discussion: piracy curbing, and ensuring Steamwork API is initialized. Neither of those two reasons are forced by Steam itself. This is evidenced by the presence of many games on Steam that have no DRM whatsoever, and not even integration with Steamworks. If DRM was forced by Steam, those games wouldn't exist in their DRM-free form. Steam itself is a content delivery system, storefront, and community. The only reasons it can feel DRM-like is because of the choices made by developers and publishers. With regards to curbing piracy, this choice is made by the developers and publishers. DRM is more effective than nothing, and for this purpose games can have Valve's DRM schemes (Steam DRM or CEG) or third party DRM applied. Steamworks can also be a form of DRM, ensuring that Steam is running with an account that actually owns a game. This is developers and publishers explicitly adding DRM. This can be done to games where their executables are originally DRM-free, and can be found DRM-free on other platforms in addition to Steam. In fact, developers can choose to wrap Steam DRM protected executables with another DRM scheme. It's completely up to them. Steamworks integration is a somewhat more interesting approach to DRM. Steamworks in itself is not DRM. It is the developers' insistence that the APIs be available and their reluctance of adding error handling code or code to allow games to run without Steamworks being available that leads Steamworks in becoming a kind of DRM. It is perfectly within the realm of reality to create games that takes advantage of Steamworks features while still working properly when Steam is not found. Examples of such games include Psychonauts, Scribblenauts Unlimited (less custom objects), and various UDK games. In the cases where no additional DRM is present but the game has Steamworks integration, the only reason those games are not DRM-free is because the developer didn't put in any effort to make it DRM-free. Perhaps they wanted a little bit of piracy protection too. In conclusion, you can't call Steam, the platform, a type of DRM. It is not like conventional DRM schemes where the executables have been modified so they can only run being intact and with the DRM system active. Steam poses no such requirements, and it is only through developers and publishers' choices where games become dependent to Steam. Edit: After further discussion, I would like to add that Steam being the sole distributor of some games does not make it DRM either. Again, it is the developer/publisher's choice to distribute solely through Steam, and that Valve does not demand exclusivity. Similarly, lack of refunds and resale is not sufficient to prove that Valve is using technological measures to prevent said refunds and resale. It could simply be that no mechanisms for refunds and resale have been implemented, or that policy dictates so.