Subj : Re: Steam
To   : Arelor
From : Malvinas
Date : Sat May 17 2025 15:53:44

 Ar> If you have 200 games in your collection you might have 3 of them
 Ar> installed. If Steam goes *pooff* then most people's collections will be
 Ar> gone because most people won't have a copy of their stuff and Steam does
 Ar> not facilitate a way of achieving that (in comparison to places such as
 Ar> Gog, itch.io or Zoom, which make it a no-brainer to install games
 Ar> independently from their services).
 Ar> 

It's not just that they "don't facilitate" a way for users to "save away" a copy of the game. When you "buy" a game on steam, you never really *BUY* the game... you just buy a *LICENSE* from steam to use the game for a while (that while might be so long as to have you believe it is forever)... but the actual real ("phisical..") game, you never buy that on steam.
It's always just a license to "use" the game.
Either Steam goes "poof" or they just decide to screw everyone over and poof themselves up, everyone will end up with what they did actually buy: a license for each game, terminated.
Careful who you do business with...

Pol Malvinas.

Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas!

.... Islas Malvinas, siempre Argentinas.

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