I am trying to run a game that I bought on itch.io but I get no licenses error. Even if try to run it directly in desktop mode, steam just interrupts the game and displays no licenses error. Any ideas?
I think the problem is that the game is literally the same build as steam’s, but the dev didn’t do a very good job of neutering the “ask a steam api” bit. They accept “lol what is steam?” as a valid answer, but not “steam is responding, and says you own 0 copies of game 8675309”.
First, check protondb. Then put a comment up on itch.io. Is anybody else complaining? Is anybody else commenting on the game at all?
Add the game to heroic and let heroic add it to Steam? I recommend always using either the latest proton-ge, or the latest of the previous proton-ge (9.27).
Or remove the steamapi library from the game’s folder. Or add a steam_appid.txt.
Or a last resort would be Goldberg.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Report it to Itch. The dev should not be packaging DRM with the game.
falseprophet@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I am not sure the game has DRM it seems more like Steam recognizes it as game from it own store and thinks there should be a license for it. I could be wrong though.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 hours ago
That doesn’t happen automatically. It’s actually very illegal for it to do that. The publisher bundled a steam lib that talks to Steam.