>Steam goes down
>Games stolen

You need an online connection to play games in your steam collection?

>>715108793
You don't but some anons want to say otherwise

Works on my machine. Much be a mutt issue.

>>715108793
you don't have the whole library downloaded on your harddrive
>inb4 actually I do have 88 TBs of steam games installed
yeah right

>Criminal masterminds steal all Steam servers
>Can no longer play games

>>715109414
Okay, but in theory you could have 88 TBs of games on hard drives and if steam went down you'd be able to play them all?

>>715109663
With the steam emulator, probably most of them

>>715109663
Depends on the game and the DRM.
I can unplug my ethernet cable and play Slay the Spire just fine.

>>715108793
You do some of them, especially if updates for mp only games go through steam

>>715109663
click this op

My deck and all the games on it still works

>bank goes down
>money stolen

>>715110087
All my savings are in cash though. It's always king

>>715110194
>inflation goes up
>money stolen

>>715110402
True. But works for banks too, gold bros win again

>>715110469
>solar storm strikes the earth
>all gold are molten

>>715109867
>>715109880
Is this a problem unique to steam then or just how all these PC game stores work?

>>715110594
True. Mole people win again

>>715110657
The store itself is almost never the DRM.
An individual game can require the store be open (easily worked around for Steam,) have Denuvo or some other DRM, or have none at all, in which case you can just start the game's .exe with nothing else open.

>>715110594
>gaben builds deep sea city
>steam servers are the only ones surviving

>Piracy is a service problem
>Service goes down
>Me picrel 2 seconds later

>>715108170 (OP)
if the stop killing games initiate works out as hoped, the day steam sees the writing on the wall and that it's going to die, they will be required to make an end of life plan to make sure you can get and have your games before it's gone.
All those years of anons doomering about how if steam ever goes belly up all your games are gone will be owned so hard...

>>715113215
>they will be required to make an end of life plan to make sure you can get and have your games before it's gone.
They've talked about this for 20 years

>>715113324
so doomers already btfo?
very cool

>>715110194
poor or underage

Couldn't we just pirate the games at that point? We can still play stuff from the atari era to now.

>>715110087
Literally true, yes. This is what happens every economic crash. Banks go bankrupt and the people lose the money they had saved, because it isn't fucking real money.

>>715108170 (OP)
Why did Rei just murder the angry video game nerd?

Noooo! I thought Gaben was the chosen one but he was the game killer all along!

>>715113802
i thought this was THAT version, phew

this has literally never happened to me once in nearly 2 decades

>>715115485
>THAT version
huh? if it's cuckshit then I don't care

>>715109971
>multiplayer game needs online to function
That goes without saying, retard.

>>715113828
Because he didn't read the filename.

>>715110594
>all gold is molten
>bathe in the gold as a mole man
65 million years from now can't come soon enough.

Just use goldberg emu.

If the game doesnt have any anticheat just optional steamworks its yours. That's on you though to buy games without real DRM. It's not steam's fault and steam is more than happy to let people pirate clean steam rips of their games and let people refund their games.

They do this because the vast majority of people buy their games and don't refund them.

>>715110594
>sun explodes
>money stolen
how would you react?

>>715120246
By the time our sun explodes we'll be living on other suns miles away

>galaxy explodes
>credits stolen

>>715108170 (OP)
>Steam goes down
hasnt happened even once in the 17 years i've used it
>games stolen
I synced my Steam to my GoG, also federal copyright law states you're legally allowed to pirate if you lose access to your games.