That’s what house insurance is for.
Comment on PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 9 months agoAll the physical games i ever owned went up in flames when my house burned down. I can still play games i bought on steam in 2008
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
pdxfed@lemmy.world 9 months ago
“Have you considered Game Insurance?” - Ubisoft, probably
HKayn@dormi.zone 9 months ago
You could have made digital backups of your physical games and stored that somewhere safe.
You cannot make backups of DRM’d Steam games that work without Steam.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 9 months ago
Please don't fucking tell me you mad digital backup of your 50 xbox games and 40 playstation games and have a modded playstation and xbox laying around where you can just burn them whenever you wanna play them.
burliman@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Exactly. Some of the replies in this thread are so disingenuous.
HKayn@dormi.zone 9 months ago
Just because you don’t care about backing things up doesn’t mean nobody else is.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Don’t need to burn them, you can play them off a USB! Or over an SMB share.
HKayn@dormi.zone 9 months ago
How do you think PS2 ROMs are uploaded?
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Homie, I’ve made backups of thousands of games.
Skipcast@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You can’t make digital backups of physical games with drm either since you need the original disc to play (or atleast that was the case last time I bought a physical game which is probably around 2005 or something lmao)
HKayn@dormi.zone 9 months ago
You are spot on, DRM is the problem at the core. That’s why I prefer DRM-free stores like GOG over Steam whenever possible.
Luckily many of the old games I own on CD are also available on GOG.
Laser@feddit.de 9 months ago
Steam doesn’t enforce DRM, your game can use Steamworks even without DRM.
The no-DRM policy sure is very good, but in the end any game on GoG is there by choice of the publisher, who could also choose not to use DRM on Steam.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Digital backups of my Steam games exist on torrents. If Steam ever becomes shitty like this I can stop purchasing from them and reacquire it from the Jolly Roger.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
You can make Steam offline mode and you absolutely will have access to any game installed on your machine.