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> Amazon, Steam, etc. are not in fact capable of taking away the data I bought, no matter what they do with their servers. I'm not sure what you mean by this,
by pmh 13y ago
> Amazon, Steam, etc. are not in fact capable of taking away the data I bought, no matter what they do with their servers.
I'm not sure what you mean by this, could you elaborate? As of now, if e.g. your Steam account is suspended or the Steam servers shut down, you will no longer be able to play any of the games on that account (offline mode and DRM circumvention notwithstanding).
You may have access to a subset of the data on your disk (the games you previously downloaded), but they're still wrapped in DRM.
As an aside, Steam is also capable of removing games from your account, which they do e.g. in the case of a chargeback.
- Dylan16807 13y ago> I'm not sure what you mean by this I meant circumvention. I paid for it, they're not taking it back.
- rplnt 13y agoMost of the games are in fact not wrapped in Steam DRM. Just by the way, as playing them is equal to pirating anyways. If your service is suspended you "can't" play them (even though you can).
- pmh 13y agoThis is getting slightly off-topic, but it's only a minority[1] of games that lack the Steam DRM wrapper and they're primarily indie titles. Nearly all (if not all) AA/AAA titles on Steam require Steam to be running. [1] http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_steam/page1 http://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_drmfree_games_on_st...