Comment by mikenew
7 years ago
Every piece of DRM'd content will end up like this. Every book, movie, show, album, and game will be dead in a few decades (or sooner) if it relies on some company maintaining it's servers.
It's good that there's alternatives, but it seems like the alternatives are slowly diminishing.
Take this with a grain of salt, but Steam support says there are "measures in place" to ensure users have access to DRM'd games when steam dies [0]. (Not to mention that it's trivially easy to remove Steam DRM with existing tools)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/18mzcn/i_asked_steam...
Unfortunately we'll have to see it to truly believe it. I don't doubt Valve would do that, but it's easy to say that now.
Luckily, we still have torrents to help backup old games.
right... like what if Valve actually even intends to do it, but it requires someone to throw a switch and the last guy that knows how to (or even just to) do that dies suddenly just before Valve suddenly goes bankrupt.
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> there are "measures in place" to ensure users have access to DRM'd games when steam dies
What about when Steam gets gobbled up by $other_industry_giant?