Subj : Re: Steam
To   : Nightfox
From : Arelor
Date : Sun May 18 2025 14:59:49

  Re: Re: Steam
  By: Nightfox to Malvinas on Sat May 17 2025 07:02 pm

 >  Ma> It's not just that they "don't facilitate" a way for users to "save
 >  Ma> away" a copy of the game. When you "buy" a game on steam, you never
 >  Ma> really *BUY*
 >
 > They don't?  Years ago, Steam allowed you to back up your games and had an
 > option to make ISOs or burn the backups directly to DVD-R discs..  I suppose
 > now that most PCs these days don't have optical drives, they could still let
 > you save backups somewhere, but maybe they've removed that option
 > altogether?

I have never seen such an option. If anybody knows where it is, I am eager to hear about it.

However, it seems to me the standard way of backing up a Steam game is to copy the folder it is installed over to an archive, alongside some wrapper that mocks Steam's DRM.


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