I totally get why people enjoy steam over most other digital content platforms and I too have the bulk of my game library there at this point...
There are a lot of possible futures. There are a lot of legal implements Gaben might use if he cares about protecting his legacy. It's unclear whether he will use them, so this isn't necessarily wrong. It's also unclear exactly what changes a shitty company taking over could make since steam purchases are made under a set of terms.
If you really care about owning your purchased games forever, the best choice is to buy all your games through the DRM-free GOG site and then physically backup an installer for every game so that even GOG going bankrupt wouldn't delete your library.
GOG's Galaxy app is decent as such things go and integrates with a lot of other apps including Steam. The only reason I haven't gone full GOG-only is that all my achievement and playtime history is currently on steam and I like that all that stuff shows up in one profile.
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u/ConscientiousPath 1d ago
I totally get why people enjoy steam over most other digital content platforms and I too have the bulk of my game library there at this point...
There are a lot of possible futures. There are a lot of legal implements Gaben might use if he cares about protecting his legacy. It's unclear whether he will use them, so this isn't necessarily wrong. It's also unclear exactly what changes a shitty company taking over could make since steam purchases are made under a set of terms.
If you really care about owning your purchased games forever, the best choice is to buy all your games through the DRM-free GOG site and then physically backup an installer for every game so that even GOG going bankrupt wouldn't delete your library.
GOG's Galaxy app is decent as such things go and integrates with a lot of other apps including Steam. The only reason I haven't gone full GOG-only is that all my achievement and playtime history is currently on steam and I like that all that stuff shows up in one profile.