They’ve said they have a contingency plan in case that happens. They haven’t said what it is, but my guess is some kind of “you have 60 days to download your games without steamworks DRM”.
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originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 months agoI mean I hate to say it but if steam closed up shop tomorrow your games are gone too. You buy a license, not a copy, from steam
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 months ago
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah I don’t trust the good will of corporations, even the ones I personally like
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 months ago
Yes that is true - although many games on Steam can play offline so because I download the game, I own it in that fashion. They can’t take that away.
But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah GOG is a better ownership model. Steam is not ownership
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I’m concerned.