If Steam died.....

[Deleted member 651465]

Indeed. And as I have said many times before, it's astonishing, the hubris with which people are willing to let a single entity be the sole gatekeeper to their games collection, to the point where some people won't even buy games unless they're on Steam! WTF?!

The conversation is basically this:

"OK I might buy all my games from you, but what if you go under/get bought/anything else?"

"It's OK, I solemnly promise you'll still have access to your games."

"Oh, that's alright then!"

I will never, ever understand this. I buy my games from as many different sources as possible.

Doing this only increases the probability and ergo risk of losing access to your games, no?

 

[Huw]

Doing this only increases the probability and ergo risk of losing access to your games, no?

No. It mitigates the risk of a single company going bust (or whatever) and losing access to your entire collection. Ever heard the one about putting all of your eggs in one basket?

 

[AWPC]

If Valve had notice this was going to happen they would release an offline only Steam client with no shop integration but even though Gabe says they have something in place to implement this I am not so sure anymore after all the Steam client updates it would probably take longer than expected and obviously all online Steamworks services would be unavailable so for VAC games they may not work offline at all.

I think Valve have become like Apple they will still be here in 20 years time as PC gaming continues to grow rapidly if all the PC gamers in the world used Steam 100% of the time that would be approx 250m+ users at once

This year alone I noticed well over 5m Steam users is the current record

 

[Deleted member 651465]

No. It mitigates the risk of a single company going bust (or whatever) and losing access to your entire collection. Ever heard the one about putting all of your eggs in one basket?

Yes, and ever heard about probability?

The more companies you buy from, the higher the risk that one of them will go bust. I see what you're saying with the single supplier scenario, but I'd rather trust valve than A.N other games Ltd from going bust.

Until EA and Co can establish themselves as serious competitors, it's not worth the gamble IMO.

 

[Utnac]

They belong to Steam/Valve and your purchases are infact 'rented'.

*Not legally proven.