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Every piece of DRM'd content will end up like this. Every book, movie, show, album, and game will be dead in a few decades (or sooner) if it relies on some comp
by mikenew 7y ago
Every piece of DRM'd content will end up like this. Every book, movie, show, album, and game will be dead in a few decades (or sooner) if it relies on some company maintaining it's servers.
It's good that there's alternatives, but it seems like the alternatives are slowly diminishing.
- judge2020 7y agoTake this with a grain of salt, but Steam support says there are "measures in place" to ensure users have access to DRM'd games when steam dies [0]. (Not to mention that it's trivially easy to remove Steam DRM with existing tools) https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/18mzcn/i_asked_steam_support_what_happens_to_my_games_if/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/18mzcn/i_asked_steam...
- wishinghand 7y agoUnfortunately we'll have to see it to truly believe it. I don't doubt Valve would do that, but it's easy to say that now. Luckily, we still have torrents to help backup old games.
- dwighttk 7y agoright... like what if Valve actually even intends to do it, but it requires someone to throw a switch and the last guy that knows how to (or even just to) do that dies suddenly just before Valve suddenly goes bankrupt.
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoNot even that - what if they're bought out by another company who doesn't share their philosophy? (EA?)
- tremon 7y ago> there are "measures in place" to ensure users have access to DRM'd games when steam dies What about when Steam gets gobbled up by $other_industry_giant?