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If steam disappears, your games disappear as well. You can't install it, you can't play it. You are officially screwed. Which is why i like GOG much more. Even if it disappears, you will still have the installer with you.
I'd imagine Steam would have some measure to let you download the games DRM free if they knew they were going to be destroyed, but it would probably be up to the devs which ones can be downloaded in that way. Even then, Steam and Gog would be the same in that you have the drm free games, but if Gog goes down, you can't go get those installers again if you need them, much like how you'd only have that one chance if Steam shut down.
But American monopolies are invincible, and even though Valve isn't as much as a monopoly as garbage like Comcast since it actually allows competition to exist, I don't see it going down for a long while unless someone hacks it which I don't think would be nearly as easy as PSN and Xbox Live since they have security measures so tight that Gabe once gave out his username and password and challenged everyone to log in to it.
Gog is alright, but their selection of games is very limited and the sales aren't nearly as good. It's like PSN without the shitty subscription service, but loads of DOS games. You could just go to Abandonia to find a lot of those games, I'd assume. Even without the DRM, those installers would vanish without a platform giving them out.
I don't know why I typed all that mostly not very relevant shit.
I'd imagine Steam would have some measure to let you download the games DRM free if they knew they were going to be destroyed, but it would probably be up to the devs which ones can be downloaded in that way. Even then, Steam and Gog would be the same in that you have the drm free games, but if Gog goes down, you can't go get those installers again if you need them, much like how you'd only have that one chance if Steam shut down.
But American monopolies are invincible, and even though Valve isn't as much as a monopoly as garbage like Comcast since it actually allows competition to exist, I don't see it going down for a long while unless someone hacks it which I don't think would be nearly as easy as PSN and Xbox Live since they have security measures so tight that Gabe once gave out his username and password and challenged everyone to log in to it.
Gog is alright, but their selection of games is very limited and the sales aren't nearly as good. It's like PSN without the shitty subscription service, but loads of DOS games. You could just go to Abandonia to find a lot of those games, I'd assume. Even without the DRM, those installers would vanish without a platform giving them out.
I don't know why I typed all that mostly not very relevant shit.
