Comment by judge2020
7 years ago
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.
Not even that - what if they're bought out by another company who doesn't share their philosophy? (EA?)
> 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?