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In my experience (YMMV, I've a long history of gaming), if steam disappears I'll be disappointed to lose my titles, but it won't be the end of the world. Games
by vacri 10y ago
In my experience (YMMV, I've a long history of gaming), if steam disappears I'll be disappointed to lose my titles, but it won't be the end of the world. Games I've played yesteryear rarely hold up over time - the vast majority I've fired up again feel very dated. And there's always a ton of new, interesting, and cheap games coming forward. Games are somewhat ephemeral/disposable, I find, so the "won't be around in five years" is less of a problem than for other software.
Again, that's my use case, others may differ.
- ajuc 10y agoPeople still play Star Craft:Brood War as a profession. And I still like to play Master of Magic or Doom 2 from time to time. GOG.com made business on these kinds of games, so I'm not alone. DRMs and always-online requirements are sad and I hope they go away.
- creshal 10y agoIt really depends on the games. The vast majority won't even be interesting after a year, but there's a few gems that are timeless. Although those are also the games that tend to get regular remakes; while I still have my Final Fantasy VII disks for Playstation 1 I'd rather fire up the Steam port than mess around with an emulator. Or OpenXcom rather than the DOXBox'd original.
- Asooka 10y agoIf Steam disappears tomorrow, you'll still keep all your downloaded games and circumventing Steam drm is rather trivial.