That wasn't an official announcement, that was just Gabe's response to someone when they emailed him asking. Valve has no reason to let people keep playing their games offline if Steam shuts down.
Gabe's response ultimately means nothing because if Steam shuts down, it'll happen because he's not president of Valve anymore. Whether its by death, being bought out, or being pushed out via manufactured scandal or takeover.
I feel like some branch of Disney or whatever will acquire Valve and wants Steam gone so you'll be forced to use whatever awful Judeo-Chinese game distribution program will exist in our bleak future. And in that case, there's definitely incentive to not let you keep your games and instead require you to buy them back. Gaming in general becomes steadily more unfriendly to customers every year and it's been like that for at least 15 years now, but I can't imagine how violently and aggressively anti-consumerist that things will when Valve folds in 15-20 years. When Steam is gone, whatever Disney-Microsoft-Epic-Blackrock gaming service that replaces it will be infinitely worse.
Piracy exists, that mentally ill freak Empress cracked Deathloop and GOTG, two games I had zero interest in ever playing but now that they're free I might give them a shot
Realisticlly, would it be possible for steam to give a month grace period to install your games and maybe hardware encode them before they officially shutdown?
Only time Steam could shut down is if Valve went bankrupt and didn't get acquired by a bigger tech conglomerate, but if it does happen I highly doubt they'll do anything except give the news of what will happen and a half assed way of "fixing it", after that you're on your own
With the way companies and shit are getting bought up and kicked around and absorbed these days, I wouldn't be too surprised if Steam didn't make it past 2030, but if I had to bet, I would bet on them getting bought and dismantled by 2035. Definitely gone by 2040. Some big Chinese company or most likely some israelite are going to buy it and then close it in favor of whatever gigantic ruthless anti-consumer gaming service they're shilling at the time.
>Cost of replacing my PC library if Steam magically implodes somehow:
$0, I already bought them before so there's nothing stopping me from cracking the versions I have. >Cost of replacing my physical console library if my house burns down:
$2000 rough estimate, I have lots of old games.
I've heard more provable stories of people losing their physical libraries than of Steam shutting down and everyone losing their games.
I've also had my steam account stolen before in 2009 as a moronic 14 year old (fell for a scam) and even then was able to recover it with a proof of purchase of one of my games, so I reckon you'd have to be pants on head moronic on purpose to lose your steam account permanently on your own.
it wont, someone will buy up the rights and the servers, the cycle will continue until we run out of fossil fuels and revert to pre-industry by 2100 so it wont matter.
I would bet money that before 2025, a Steam ban will include a total lockout from your account. Sooner than you think, somebody is going to say they don't like BLM in the in-game chat and end losing hundred of dollars worth of games from the ensuing permaban.
>offline mode
>backups on hard drive
lmao
>he doesn't know steam requires you to the servers every two weeks for verification
lol
>steam requires you to the servers
no surprise ESL poster is a Dunning Kruger babby
>implying they wouldn't just disable that if they shut down
they have no obligation to
>implying Valve would give a shit about users not being able to play the games after Steam shuts down
HDDs only last for 3-5 years
>HDDs only last for 3-5 years
actual fricking moron
>HDDs only last for 3-5 years
explain why i have a few ones still working after 15 years
Steam has already said that if they ever closed the platform you would be able to play any installed games forever.
Steam also said they're not gonna curate tastes so they'll allow anything that doesn't break the law onto Steam.
That lasted for about ~6 months.
You two gays post sources or suck my microdick.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/6/17435244/valve-steam-game-release-new-policy
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253664/valve-steam-rape-day-ban-sexual-assault-moderation-content-policy
That wasn't an official announcement, that was just Gabe's response to someone when they emailed him asking. Valve has no reason to let people keep playing their games offline if Steam shuts down.
Gabe's response ultimately means nothing because if Steam shuts down, it'll happen because he's not president of Valve anymore. Whether its by death, being bought out, or being pushed out via manufactured scandal or takeover.
I feel like some branch of Disney or whatever will acquire Valve and wants Steam gone so you'll be forced to use whatever awful Judeo-Chinese game distribution program will exist in our bleak future. And in that case, there's definitely incentive to not let you keep your games and instead require you to buy them back. Gaming in general becomes steadily more unfriendly to customers every year and it's been like that for at least 15 years now, but I can't imagine how violently and aggressively anti-consumerist that things will when Valve folds in 15-20 years. When Steam is gone, whatever Disney-Microsoft-Epic-Blackrock gaming service that replaces it will be infinitely worse.
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also, figurative sea of cracked, pirated games by
No I'm not
There's a program called steamless which basically removes steam's own drm
I'll save copies of all the games I got in various hdd and sdd
Gonna enjoy it while it lasts though.
I think I'll have bigger problems if something as immovable and big as Steam goes down (for good)
>big
90% of people just use Steam to play CSGO, that's all it is to them
Yarr
Piracy exists, that mentally ill freak Empress cracked Deathloop and GOTG, two games I had zero interest in ever playing but now that they're free I might give them a shot
Is that a threat, Tim?
Realisticlly, would it be possible for steam to give a month grace period to install your games and maybe hardware encode them before they officially shutdown?
Only time Steam could shut down is if Valve went bankrupt and didn't get acquired by a bigger tech conglomerate, but if it does happen I highly doubt they'll do anything except give the news of what will happen and a half assed way of "fixing it", after that you're on your own
At that point they'll just compile public tools to crack Steam games so you can play them easy at any time if you ever had any.
they’ll just get acquired by epic
I pirate
>implying anyone of us is going to see that day
lmao
what's going to happen to our accounts when we die bros?
Delet
With the way companies and shit are getting bought up and kicked around and absorbed these days, I wouldn't be too surprised if Steam didn't make it past 2030, but if I had to bet, I would bet on them getting bought and dismantled by 2035. Definitely gone by 2040. Some big Chinese company or most likely some israelite are going to buy it and then close it in favor of whatever gigantic ruthless anti-consumer gaming service they're shilling at the time.
>when steam shuts down
we will all be six feet under by the time steam ever shuts down
>Cost of replacing my PC library if Steam magically implodes somehow:
$0, I already bought them before so there's nothing stopping me from cracking the versions I have.
>Cost of replacing my physical console library if my house burns down:
$2000 rough estimate, I have lots of old games.
I've heard more provable stories of people losing their physical libraries than of Steam shutting down and everyone losing their games.
I've also had my steam account stolen before in 2009 as a moronic 14 year old (fell for a scam) and even then was able to recover it with a proof of purchase of one of my games, so I reckon you'd have to be pants on head moronic on purpose to lose your steam account permanently on your own.
there are steam emulators right fricking now
it wont, someone will buy up the rights and the servers, the cycle will continue until we run out of fossil fuels and revert to pre-industry by 2100 so it wont matter.
don't you have to "activate" console games too nowadays, everyone is fricked you naive homosexual
steamcucks on suicide watch
>chuds
the anti racist uses a racist term
I would bet money that before 2025, a Steam ban will include a total lockout from your account. Sooner than you think, somebody is going to say they don't like BLM in the in-game chat and end losing hundred of dollars worth of games from the ensuing permaban.
I guess that's your face in pure desperation... any day now, any day now...
Piracy > GOG + Steam > EGS
Fight me
thats why i buy everything on the Epic Games Store (TM)