Thread 718935387

"Steam will die one day and all of your vidya will be gone. You should have bought physical"

You will die first unless you exercise and eat vegetables every day

Physical isn't any better. If a game releases physical but not on GOG then there's some form of DRM.

Unless you can copy it to a USB, burn it onto as many discs as you want or do anything to backup, store or manipulate it, you don't own it.

Steam is propped up by anti consumer publishers because the Steam DRM is good enough. If EA and Ubisoft sells on Steam, ask yourself how consumer friendly Steam truly is.

We can only hope so.

And when the dust had settled, they looked at the contents of the disc, horrified to find out it was just a physical record of a CD key

Retard

>>718935809
It's autistic fags that thinks discs are something special. Autistic retards that make being a gamer their personality and lack any understanding of computers and will whole heartedly claim discs don't have DRM on them.

>>718935650
>If EA and Ubisoft sells on Steam, ask yourself how consumer friendly Steam truly is.
that's the thing. pretty sure most, if not all, ea and ubislop games require you to download and use their own drm launchers. steam is just a sales vector

>steam dies
>pirate all the SP games i was playing
>all the MP games are dead regardless because nobody buys goddamn discs for PC
>things remain basically fine

>>718935387 (OP)
It's irrational to think Steam will last forever, but you guys were saying in 2010 that Steam would be long dead in 10 years.

>>718936605
They do but Steam is another DRM layer.
Who do you think is pushing this pussy shit about multiple game launchers?
If you buy an Ubisoft game on Steam you have Ubisoft DRM on top of Steam DRM. More points of failure.

Steam is just DRM lined with bloat. If Steam was anything more, Discord, 4chan v, gaming reddits wouldn't exist, studios wouldn't post on twitter and their own websites. Everything that "justifies" using Steam, is just subk cost fallacy bullshit because their games is stuck under Steams DRM.

>buys on GOG
Literally a (You) problem.

>>718935387 (OP)
good luck storing 1000+ video games in physical form

>>718935387 (OP)
Oh no

Not my map games by greedy swedish studio

>>718937054
Steam as a platform offers DRM as a feature, but Steam itself isn't DRM. There are games in my Steam account that I can run without Steam running. I could literally uninstall Steam and still play them.
>but that's not most games
Oh well. I'm being pedantic. Get bent.

>>718937243
>There are games
There are and those games are purposely designed to skirt around Steam DRM. You're being pedantic while ignoring why it's possible.

>>718937418
>purposely designed to skirt around Steam DRM
What the fuck does this even mean? They're not skirting around anything; they're simply not partaking in one of the features Steam offers.

>>718935387 (OP)
Well, at least I'll still have my boxed sets of Privateer and Wing Commander III if the disc rot hasn't set in yet.

Just crack the steam release, retard.

>>718935387 (OP)
buying games? retard?

>>718935387 (OP)
Physical games don't come complete anymore and require day-1 patches.

>>718935387 (OP)
So you think that games just disappear when they are removed from digital sale?

>>718935387 (OP)
steam is a turn-key business, and valve have too much old guard.

>>718937418
>Don't include DRM in my game
>"wow, how are these guys getting around Steam's DRM?"

>>718935710
I hate this pretentious pajeet faggotry
>Wow look we destroyed something we put effort into! Arent we le epic and cool??

>>718938718
Kind of ironic to say on an ephemeral BBS.

>>718935387 (OP)
You could buy a 6tb hard disk and download every game you bought on it to use it offline, but you won't because you believe nothing ever happens

>>718938718
YWNAN (you will never achieve nirvana)

>>718937418
>Half-Life 2 and Portal are purposely designed to skirt around their own publisher's distribution platform's DRM
uh huh

>>718935387 (OP)
Physical games? Where?!

>>718938786
You're a fucking retard and your post is fucking idiotic, Ranjeet.

>>718939178
Where's this coming from? We don't know each other.

>>718938718
Its funny how they try to sell it as some cool spiritual enlightened thing.
If thats the case, then why are they advertising at all?

>>718935387 (OP)
>Steam will die one day
The real problem is that I'll die one day, and at this rate it will be long before I have time to fully enjoy all the good games that exist. This would be true even if the games and their "you own nothing" EULA agreement checkboxes were delivered to me on plastic.

>>718939270
Kind of ironic since you have a name

>>718939309
>advertising
It's from a documentary film, I believe Samsara.
>try to sell
The people gravitate towards the practice themselves.

>>718939498
You might want to check your userscripts, I'm posting anonymously.

>>718935387 (OP)
I dont know anon they said the same with this place and look at us we are still here though...

>>718938718
And it wasn't even impressive at all
If it was some 10 year long ultra high effort project with insane detail, I'd have given a fuck
That looks like something even I could make in a week

>>718935387 (OP)
Ive a game on steam that I can install and play, the game cant be bought on steam anymore

>>718937054
Steam is not DRM. Steamworks is DRM, and it is optional. Devs and publishers actively CHOOSE to put Steamworks DRM in their game. It is not forced by Valve.

I just backup my game folders and if shit ever goes bad I'll just crack said backup games

It will probably turn into a subscription based service first and you will have to pay to play the games you "own"

>>718938718
>Wow look we destroyed something we put effort into! Arent we le epic and cool??

>>718935387 (OP)
Interesting, but not concerning as I'm not a cultist huffing Newell's ass steam

>>718935387 (OP)
I have never paid money for a game on Steam

>>718935387 (OP)
Still have entire rom libraries downloaded and GOG exes.

Physical only retards need to get off their high horse.

>>718935710
great movie

>>718935387 (OP)
Immediate death is still better than new woke management after Gaben dies. See pic for the type that would run steam.

Globohomo would love to own steam, the demoralization propganda would be off the roof. Openly anti-white, funding immigration and trans 'charities' then rubbing it in your face. All forums being reddit-tier censorship and there's nothing you can do since there's nowhere else to go and they have all your games.

>>718935387 (OP)
WW3 will happen before that lol

way ahead of you. I'm still salty about buying Skyrim and realizing it was just a blank cd and a code.

Aren't there ways to bypass Steam's DRM?
If you really care about it so much, couldn't you just do that and then burn it onto a disc?

>>718938718
it's not to look cool, it's to get numb to the feeling of seeing a thing you worked hard on get destroyed. have you never built anything?

TITGJ-QNEVX-LTTYH

People keep asserting that steam will eventually die and discuss what will happen with the games.

No one talks about HOW steam will die.

If Steam dies, we will certainly have bigger problems to worry about. It is way too profitable for any reasonable investor to let die. It might turn to shit once Gabe dies but it'll still be there.

>>718935387 (OP)
All my ps2, 3 games are scratched to hell, along with PC warcraft 3, diablo 2 and a knockoff rpg game.

The only pc disk still working is Orange Box, and that is because there was a product code in its cover.

Buy physical: Disk gets scratched in circa 10 years.
Steam: Gets deleted circa 10 years.

So i am going to just pirate.

>>718944045
Thanks dude, that was nice. I never played a batman game before.