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So lately I have been worrying about what will happen when Steam eventually shuts down and all those games will just be lost and unable to really be replayed again.
Will enough autists maintain a library of torrents for these pc games so that they wont be lost?
Will I have to hunt down the console versions of most of them to be able to play them again?
Even if it doesn't happen for 60 or more years it stills gives me a gaming existential crisis because I am a retard who thinks the only joy I will have in my senior years is old games I remember.
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>>377151573
>unable to be really be replayed again
They save to your hard drive and can be started even without steam
Why are you talking about shit you have no idea about you absolute peasant
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Not gonna happen any soon. But if it did, I'd buy a bicyle.
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literally take any Codex crack, and change the ini to fit the game, and it will work. Denuvo games notwithstanding.
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>>377152056
Well assuming I don't want to download terabytes of data to hard drives just to insure I have everything. Still that is at least somewhat comforting
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VALVE disables steamworks and all games work without checking for steam connection
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>>377151573
GoG.
the slavs will have your back.
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>>377153013
>I don't want to install my games to play them
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>>377151573
Valve said that in its final update in the event the company goes under they will release an update that will make all your games work offline without authentication from steam servers.
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>>377153285
gog will go out of business long before valve
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>>377151573
>when Steam eventually shuts down
gabe newell has a higher net worth than the current president of the united states
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if steam shuts down its because nobody will be playing games. meaning no one will care what happens to those games they never play anymore
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>>377153639
Steam is also an highly recognized name in the industry. In the remote case the company goes under the service would be bought by someone else and kept operative. Example like Blockbuster doesn't count because it happened during a radical change of the distribution system.
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there is actually a similar thread in catalogue
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>>377153404
lmao no but seriously
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>>377151573
Steam shutting down is still pretty long term. Even if their revenue drops dramatically their user base would also drop which would reduce their bandwidth bills as well.
If you want to worry about existential threats to PC gaming as we know it, Windows 10 S is a way more concrete concern. One that Valve thankfully have been preparing for.
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