Thread 723361161

You do have all your games backed up, cracked and archived in zips as well as all your games on heroic launcher right?

Steam could pull your games at any moment. You don't own them or the files

>>723361161 (OP)
I only buy games to support devs, I can pirate any time. Now go back.

>>723361161 (OP)
how long before single player games start charging yearly license fees for their game instead of one time purchase?

>>723361218
>>723361268
>>723361314
If you're not in control of the game files. You don't own it. And I don't want to hear the cope about Goldberg emu. You still have to pay for steam games and half the time the crack doesn't work.

Its literally better to just pirate and and archive your games now. You can even run them in something like sandboxie for windows or flatpak on linoox with no internet access if you're paranoid about malware.

In the near future, Steam will charge you for storing all the hundreds of games you have acquired over the years; if you don't pay, it will delete all your games, save files, achievements, and other incentives. Steam has always been a trap and keeps all its users like crabs in a bucket.

failed ragebait thread

>>723361161 (OP)
I only play games once

>>723361935
OP will just necrobump it like he always does and will remake the thread 3 more times every day

>>723361161 (OP)
I started pirating everything after Gabe forced me off of Windows 7 in 2023. I'm not worried about Steam shutting down anymore.

>>723361409
Soon and steam will allow it because its just a marketplace o algo

Currently burning all the stuff I really want to keep to archival-grade gold DVDs that are rated to last longer than I will live. 20 years from now I'll still be enjoying all the stuff I like, and everyone else will be crying about how they can't find a source, legal or otherwise. No, your RAID HDD's are not a reliable archive. No, your SSD's are not a reliable archive. No, your USB flash drives are not a reliable archive. If it's not backed up on a solid media format that isn't effected by magnetism, then it's not archived.
Music, videogames, movies, TV shows, cartoons, comics, webcomics, anime, ebooks, if you want to have it in the future, then you better download it and archive it. Do not trust HDDs, SSDs, flash drives, and standard consumer grade burnable discs. Archival grade discs with a gold layer are the only "know for a fact this will work in 20-40 years" option available.

>>723364532
>dvd drive laser fails
what then

>>723361161 (OP)
>>723361447
What are they going to do? They can't take the files away. I'll just crack them when Steam decides to disable the play button or whatever

>>723361976
But for what purposse? Just back up your games and let us peasants live in blissfull ignorance.

i don't care
i don't foresee a future in which steam dies, but if it does I will simply pirate for the rest of my life after the biggest class-action lawsuit ever is concluded
what else do you expect me to do? most of the games I play are digital-only, there is no physical option in the first place
>hurr vote with ur wallet
all that would achieve is me playing about 95% fewer games, it will have no appreciable effect on the market

>>723362187
>retard

>>723365093
OP is a thirdie that got vac banned from csgo ages ago so now he spams ragebait threads about steam

>>723365192
Alright dude

>>723365187
You pay for the games Doe. Its inherently insecure since steam decides if you're allowed to continue downloading the files