>The reality is Valve often does a better job at preservation than GoG My take on this is that GoG does exactly what I want, let me download offline installers

>The reality is Valve often does a better job at preservation than GoG My take on this is that GoG does exactly what I want, let me download offline installers and store them away myself. Which makes it better at preservation than Steam. I'm thankful for all the work steam does, including letting you continue to play games that were ripped off the storefront if you own them. I'm just not sure I trust steam in the long term. On that same note its hard to trust GoG in the long term because they aren't profiting enough off their storefront, hence me keeping all of their offline installers on my own drives after buying a game. (and patch files!) It gets depressing thinking about how bad we are at game preservation even with all the commercial and hobbyist efforts. I already have too many games piled up with a backlog of "maybe when I get a vacation/retire I can finally get around to these" that won't even be accessible in 30 years.