• Kairos@lemmy.today
    2 months

    Report it to Itch. The dev should not be packaging DRM with the game.

    • falseprophet@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        2 months

        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.

  • rotopenguin@infosec.pubEnglish
    2 months

    I think the problem is that the itch release 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.

    • Durandal@lemmy.today
      2 months

      I’m a little disappointed that Jenny’s number doesn’t correspond to an actual appid…

      • colournoun@beehaw.org
        2 months

        Try using it with a local area code for store loyalty cards. It usually works.

    • falseprophet@piefed.socialEnglish
      2 months

      I found the steam library file but when the I delete the file the game crashes. With the heroic the game just crashes after a long black screen. No info on db or itch.io I left a comment on itch.io. The game is native Linux so no proton is needed. Maybe I should try running the windows version.