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What happens with your Steam Machine if Steam decides to pull the plug for whatever reason?
by dsnr 6y ago
What happens with your Steam Machine if Steam decides to pull the plug for whatever reason?
- Rhedox 6y agoValve has said in the past that they'd patch out steamworks DRM and allow you to download stuff in advance in case the company dies. Yes, that's a pretty shallow promise not a guarantee. If they don't, there's always piracy to get access to the games you already legally purchased.
- siquick 6y agoIf the company is going bust then the last thing their shareholders are going to do is let them pay devs to do stuff that doesn’t make money.
- fooker 6y agoYou can find Steam cracks for most popular games on torrent sites right now. So, realistically someone would make a tool to do this automatically (not done now because API changes quickly, which is not an issue at EOL). The larger issue is multiplayer servers run by Valve. Some games allow you to run a server and connect to arbitrary servers, most do not. Those are going to be somewhat unplayable without explicit action from Valve.
- cable2600 6y agoI used to pirate games until Steam made them affordable and solved the lost CD/DVD issues. So I bought some games for my friends to make up for my past piracy of those games.
- anang 6y agoValve is privately owned, which I think makes this promise a little more believable (or at least more feasible).
- moistbar 6y agoThat would be a substantial problem for a publicly traded company, yes.
- tweetle_beetle 6y agoAlthough multiplayer games are pretty much all wrapped up in proprietary systems like Steam, there are significant DRM-free content libraries on GOG and itch.io.
- cable2600 6y agoI'll go to a different service. I doubt Valve will pull the plug on Steam they are doing very well.