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I mostly play solo games. I "obtain" a DRM-free copy of every game I own and put them in a private S3 for posterity. Just like I inherited a massive collection
by thrance 1y ago
I mostly play solo games. I "obtain" a DRM-free copy of every game I own and put them in a private S3 for posterity. Just like I inherited a massive collection of SciFi books from my dad, I hope to pass everything I enjoyed to my kids, if I ever have some.
- glimshe 1y agoWhenever a game is available on Steam and GOG, I buy the GOG version for that reason. Everything guaranteed to be DRM-free.
- stanac 1y agoI do the same. Today I found out that humble bundle also has DRM-free games. There was a post about baba is you today. That game is not available on GOG but it is available on humble bundle.
- kemotep 1y agoIf you didn’t know about itch.io the creator of Baba is You publishes all their games there (ones not even on Steam too), you can get DRM free copies there.
- CyMonk 1y agothere are alot of drm free games released on steam. you can check this in advance by looking up the depots on steamdb and if the steamworks api files are included.
- jl6 1y agoOut of the frying pan (DRM-free), into the fire (S3)? Would your dad’s book collection have passed as easily to you if its existence was dependent on paying a monthly bill to a bookstore that can’t be completely trusted?
- bob1029 1y agoS3 is my go-to hoarder system now too. I trust that AWS can provide more resilient storage than I can. How many 9s are you getting in your closet at home? One thing I would suggest is using local encryption of anything you store in AWS. Plausible deniability is useful for all parties involved.
- magicalhippo 1y ago> How many 9s are you getting in your closet at home? Far, far better than my residential internet connection, that's for sure. Of course, I have offsite backup of important stuff in case of fire. That said, ease of use is likely a lot better with S3 for those who don't like to tinker or have a box sit and hum.
- klabb3 1y ago> How many 9s are you getting in your closet at home? Nobody cares about the 9s. If Amazon wants to they can render the service inoperable legally, over time. Fortunately, S3 is semi-standardized so it’s ”migratable” in a real sense. The real issue is getting locked out of your account for any arbitrary reason. This happens a lot with big tech and it can be impossible to get help by a human. That’s what scares me the most but more so with Google than Amazon (at the moment).
- poisonborz 1y agoAnything you don't own can go black any time regardless of how many 9s they write in the contract. You don't own it, you have a revokeable right of access.
- danlitt 1y agoAnything you own can go black at any time too. The question is how likely is it.
- poisonborz 1y agoFalse dichotomy. The only reason your own can go black is some hw/sw failure, a risk which anyone can minimise easily by having copies. Your access of a remote corporate server can go away for 1000 reasons, making you more vulnerable. Of course it's more complex, like how often that data changes and costs of backups vs subscription price. But I find any argument for cloud products etching towards a "you'll own nothing and be happy" economy.
- bakugo 1y ago>I "obtain" a DRM-free copy of every game I own and put them in a private S3 for posterity What do you do for games that don't have "DRM-free copies", such as Denuvo games, or the increasingly large number of online-only singleplayer games?
- m-schuetz 1y agoNot OP, but since Diablo3 and its server issues that often locked my out of what's supposed to be a single-player game, I absolutely refuse to buy online-only-single player games. And anything from Blizzard.
- thrance 1y agoIf I can't obtain a DRM-free copy of a game I already paid for, I'll seek "alternative ways". I mostly play indie games though, and I haven't had much trouble with my archiving endeavors.
- tcfhgj 1y agoamazon account ban incoming
- thrance 1y agoNot hosted on Amazon.