Questions from Patreon Part 46 - Your Favorite Games May Not Be Playable in Ten Years
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It is to be done during the shutdown period if I recall but steam might have something else set up. you will not be able to buy new games obviously but their official responce is this one. This have been said by both gaben and their custum support several times. Haveing worked in custumer storage busniess myself allthough not close to the scale steam does there are actually companies with solutions for these situations. Allthough it would only apply to single player/local coop games games as multiplayer games are doomed the second the official servers are gone. Just to prove I am not talking out of my ass here is a link from 2018 on the very subject from the steam community forums. https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1736588252370389837/ The cloud functionallities will admittedly be gone though.
Solus
2019-06-20 06:43:25 +0000 UTCAgreed, that's why I've switched to buying DRM-free games from GOG when possible, and stashing them on an external HDD so that one day my grandkids get to experience them (provided we don't kill our planet before then, lol)
Raf
2019-06-20 04:13:07 +0000 UTCIt's an easy promise to make because you never have to actually commit to it. If they go out of business it won't matter what they ever said to you, as their company no longer exists. Their promises are moot. I especially disagree with your claim that the games will still be downloadable. From what servers? We can't even get game companies that still exist today to maintain servers for less popular games, but you think a dead company is going to somehow maintain servers for their dead store so that people can download their thousands of games? Who's going to pay for that?
Keith Ballard / SebastianSB
2019-06-19 22:39:08 +0000 UTCsteam have a promise that they still mention from time to time though. It is a promise that the games in your steam library will still be downloadable and in extention patched to work without steam. Most steam games have an offline mode as well allready built in unless you for the multiplayer ones. Those will die but singleplayer for most part keeps being around.
Solus
2019-06-19 19:51:29 +0000 UTC
