What would happen if steam shuts down one day?
What would happen to all my vidya?
Inaccessible
Gone forever
rip Duck game
>>345311818
Gone
>>345311818
Steam is just a rental service. You signed up for it when you made your account.
>>345311818
You'd have to pirate every game you owned. There'd be literally millions doing it, it'd be unprosecutable.
Or a class action lawsuit.
>>345311818
There was a time the whole of /v/ were against Steam and thought it was going to fail.
Hard to believe when you look back.
I believe the user agreement states that you'll receive all the games on the account as drm-free versions of the game.
Gabe also promised that to be the escape plan
>>345312140
That's only for Valve games, it would be up to the publishers for other games.
>>345312109
I think it was around 2005-2006 when people started finding out about Steam on Windows XP.
Literally everyone on 4chan thought shit sux and muh boxed games CD/DVDsss!!11 lulz
I wish I saved those threads.
Good laughs.
>>345312220
>you get key for the games
>you have to install seperate DRM launcher for each company
>>345311818
>>345312220
He said all games, I would have to find the source, but it wasn't just valve games
>>345312418
Ah yes "measures are in place"
>>345312458
Yeah,
What's the problem?
>>345311818
>>345312418
Based gaben
>>345312432
I wouldn't trust what someone who has such a vested interest in you continuing to buy games on his service would say about the matter.
>>345312495
They didn't say what those measures are.
You would just have to download a LOT of cracks.
>>345312541
Blue berry here, I see what you're saying
Is anyone actually worried about losing their steam games one day?
>>345312646
Never know what can happen. What if 10 years down the road video game streaming becomes the next big thing?
>>345311818
It's probably written or implied in the TOS.
>>345312109
to be fair Steam was terrible for a long time
>>345312646
What the actual fuck is happening in this webm?
>>345312329
Still buy>>345312329
Still buy boxed games for games i really want limiyed editions and thing like that
You should really be archiving cracks for any games you really care about. Don't trust "The Cloud." You have no idea whether you'll be able to find a specific crack in the future unless the game is very popular.
>>345312505
Has literally nothing to do with OP's post.
>>345312646
Most people who care about thinking that far ahead have already decided against going the Steam route for most of their games. I mean they may have some toss away things but not the hundreds some maniacs have.
>>345312837
The point being that 4chan thought Steam was going to epic fail.
But 4chan is never wrong.
How strange is that?
>>345312987
Steam was epic fail. It destroyed PC gaming with the birth of the "Steampleb"
Well you know what they say. If a cat dies its dead forever unless it has 9 lives in which case the cat has haxs and has to be perma B&.
>>345312646
No,there isn't another PC Platform that can hold a candle to Steam right now. When an actually decent Platform comes out I'll be worried.
>>345312832
I think it's the seed body of a reed of some sort? I'm not sure.
>>345312862
since the 2012 TOS change they're selling you limited licenses that can be revoked any time.
Going back to OP, this means you can say goodbye to your vidya without any legal consequence for valve.
The screen especially gives out the attitude vlave has for the matter: i.e. dont care for your library
>just want to play SFV
>Steam is down so I can't
Suffering.
>>345313196
Play it on your ps4
Thank god that I mostly play single player games :)
>>345313146
What would a service to surpass steam have to provide to customers?
>>345311818
>falling for gaybe's ruse cruise
>buying digital media, which is non-existent (essentially you are paying for nothing), unless you absolutely must because of multiplayer
>u n i r on i c a l l y
LMAOING @ YOUR FUCKING LIFE LOSER
HAAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
>>345313169
>since the 2012 TOS change they're selling you limited licenses that can be revoked any time.
>>345313304
More like what would it have to take away from current Steam users that they have now. Say like all major tribble As or something
>>345313419
>Paying for multiplayer games
>Paying for games that are shit and only fun because of other people
>>345312049
there are literally tens of millions of people pirating games as we speak. 90% of pc games are pirated copies.
>>345313641
>loser virg who has no friends
lmaoing @ your life too, fag
>>345313692
95% of statistics are made up on the spot
>>345313304
No mobile auth and trade jewery
>>345313757
http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-has-around-a-93-95-per-cent-piracy-rate-claims-ubisoft-ceo/
>>345313751
>Implying you play with "friends" online and not just randoms
>>345313304
Free drugs or something, Steam is pretty damn convenient and consumer-friendly
>>345313816
>claims-ubisoft-ceo/
>ubisoft ceo
>claims
>>345313816
>Guillemot doesn't provide any evidence for this
Come the fuck on anon
>>345313871
>he literally has no IRL friends he plays vidya with
just fuck your shit up senpai lol
>>345313782
You don't need to do either
>>345313816
>claims ubisoft ceo
I guess 1 in 4 women get raped in college and women only make 77 cents while men make a dollar. If you read it, it must be true
>>345314092
I read that the universe was created in 7 days.
>>345311903
Don't be daft.
Gaben has said they would unlock the games if that happened.
Plus it wouldn't be hard for someone to create a library system that mimics steam and allows access
Steam isn't exactly denuvo in terms of drm
>>345311818
The same thing that happens with every digital game, you don't own it for real. There's a reason why there is a large group of people who complain about the modern gaming industry.
>2016
>paying for games that you won't even own a physical copy of, much less a manual, box, map and catalog
>paying to download something that you can just download from somewhere else for free
>shigglydiggly
>>345314157
>7 days for God is the same as 7 days for man
>>345314656
yes
>>345314328
If the service fails how is he gonna distribute the stuff?
We can argue about this all day long but physical > digital in terms of ownership and actually getting something for your money.
You can say all the shit you want about digital being "library available anywhere" and "disc can't get scratched" but all that shit is available free on torrents anyways. If you pay for digital downloads you are a cuck and you need to shut the fuck up.
>>345314535
Shit man you just made me want to pirate something.
>>345314945
The problem isn't that we want to pirate stuff per se though, it's more that we want to buy the game, and have it be good quality and come with all the extras and know we won't be locked out of content or shilled for extra money.
And we would know that we can re-sell or lend the game to someone when we're done with it.
Companies like it this way, as each person has to pay for their own copy and can't lend it to others. It's the same reason they don't make local multiplayer anymore. Why have 4 people playing 1 game when you can make them each buy a console and game of their own and then charge them $5 a month to play with each other.
>>345315449
When I said like it this way I mean the current (shitty) market.
>>345314328
>Gaben has said they would unlock the games if that happened.
I will gladly offer you a dollar tomorrow for a hamburger today!
>>345315449
Or I could just pirate the game.. too late already torrented witcher 3
>>345313816
If 90% of PC games are pirated why the fuck do new games only have a couple thousand seed/leech?
>>345317227
Because he's a CEO and he fears the plebs stealing his trillions
>>345314932
>We can argue about this all day long but physical > digital in terms of ownership and actually getting something for your money.
How is that
If you buy any digital game without drm you can just copy it to any hdd or burn it to a disc and have the same thing as physical
Honestly I would love the day steam shuts down and all the games are lost like tears in the rain
My backlog would be lifted off my shoulders and I would be reborn as a new man
>>345319981
Yeah of course, I forgot that steam lets me burn a disc, give it to my friend and then he can play it no problem. That's totally the way this works.
>>345311818
>my vidya
>my
AHAHAHAHAHAHA fucking steam cuck
you SRSLY believe it's yours? AAAAAHHAHAHA UR HELLA DUMB
>>345311818
>tfw you realise you don't actually own anything all your steam library belongs to GABEN
You'd be free.
>>345311818
>call up my bank
>revert all previous transactions to steam
>proft
Or are you an americuck? in that case you're fucked
