Subj : Re: Steam
To   : Arelor
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun May 18 2025 17:40:08

  Re: Re: Steam
  By: Arelor to Al on Sun May 18 2025 05:38 pm

 Ar> I did a quick online search and so far it seems that Steam provide a way
 Ar> to pseudo-backup your games using their UI. By the look of it, the intent
 Ar> of such is that if your PC crashes you can re-import your game library
 Ar> into a new PC rather than redownload all your things.

How is that a "pseudo" backup?  It sounds like it achieves the intent.

 Ar> It still leaves me cold as an alternative because your copies of the games
 Ar> are still linked to Steam and so far this pseudo-backup functionality is
 Ar> clearly less complete than just copying the game files over to archival
 Ar> media alonside a Steam DRM mocker.

I'd never heard of this DRM mocking, but it sounds like something sketchy to me..?

Nightfox
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