Not exactly what I meant... but whatever.. ;p

I think he wants to know how to gift a shinyloot game, which I think it's not possible at the moment, and the key redeeming is just for promotions.

Ahhh, got it ;-)

Do we really need yet another indie store? ;)

I've finally managed to buy Lost Chronicles of Zerzura, and DRM-Free too. In my eyes, ShinyLoot have fully justified their existence.

I've kept my eye on ShinyLoot for a while but haven't bought anything yet. This sale might finally tip the scale for me. More DRM-free stores are always welcome.

Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World is $2.00 as one of the daily deals. I don't think the game has been offered elsewhere DRM-Free.

The skeleton be correct. I'm already a dab hand at the key drop. :)

So, it's bad design then. In the thumbnails I can't really read the full logo very well.

You're not supposed to have to read the logo to know what it means. Then again, nobody has ever accused Microsoft of knowing what they're doing or being competent at marketing.
I'm not sure we really have that many of them. Plus, with the Bigfish store closed a spot opened up.

I must say I'm a bit confused. So their "No added DRM" does not mean the same as DRM-free? Some of their games still require online activation, or what?

It just means that ShinyLoot doesn't add any. The games themselves might, though. The information on the right should describe what DRM it has or if it's DRM free.

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There is a search filter for "DRM Type", it's choices are "None" and "One Time Key Activation".

To clarify a little more, they don't allow games with SecuROM or Tages (which GG does allow).

One time key activation seems to be the only DRM they've allowed so far. Whether that just means the key is only needed for online play like it does for some of GOG's games will depend on the game

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But of course, you're welcome to use whatever store you want. :)

Here's a recent interview with Chris Palmarozzi of ShinyLoot for anyone interested - addresses ShinyLoot's stand on DRM.

SpaceChem is the only One Time Key Validation game I've bought from there so far, and while I haven't installed it yet, it seems like it would function pretty much as a CD key does. I don't know if it goes online to verify the key, or if it limits the reinstallation options later if so.

Yeah, I guess there's a reason I write this on a GOG forum, and not ShinyLoot or Steampowered forums. Don't know what your reason to write here is. :)

Mentioning "one time key activation" with online game components doesn't make sense, as naturally with online (multiplayer) games you are validated every time you start playing.

I guess the linked interview clarified it more, ie. they allow (single-player) DRM as long as it requires authentication only once. I just hope they were not trying to be cute there and soon reveal "Well, we meant you only need to authenticate once every time you start the game, hee, hee, hee...".

So at best they sell like Steamworks games which don't have additional third-party DRM, and have actually functional offline mode. But still far from GOG's lack of DRM.

They say this in the interview: That statement doesn't make much sense to me, considering both GOG and HumbleBundle are selling the same game completely DRM-free.

Oh well, not my loss. I personally see zero reason to buy pretty much anything from them, YMMV. Just wanted a clarification as so many others in this thread also seemed to think it is a new DRM-free store akin GOG and DotEmu, while in reality it is not.