The thing is, even if Valve did remove your games, you could get (most of) them back via piracy and move the saves on your computer over. PC is a different beast than a console walled garden.
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cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 days agoValve has fucked some over though. I get it. I don’t want some corporate overlord in 19, 15, 20 years just going “nope!” And deleting my purchased games.
Imagine ford coming to your house and taking your dads 1960’s mustang. “This isn’t supported anymore” and loading it up on a flat deck trailer.
Also a steam boy though. Valve has so far proven not to be evil to me and a majority. My deck and steam controller are easily repaired compared to the competition and very open in what you can do with them.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yup definitely, but I rely too much on steam cloud for saves now so if I don’t have the game installed I’d still need steam to move them.
Reygle@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Okay, I think I’m starting to get it. Thanks for the help. In my experience I don’t recall losing access to anything I “owned” from Valve.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 2 days ago
You could sell games. They took your ownership and right to resale. They have greatly diminished the dollar value of games and made sure a used market cannot exist.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Yeah that’s a good point. I tend to hoard my games though. I like to come back to them, and if I was one of those people that already owned chrono trigger on SNES I definitely wouldn’t be buying at back at today’s price if I had previously sold it.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 2 days ago
To each their own.
My point is, resale is worth money. The less of a used market the more the value diminishes.
Valve only exists because they fucked us a long time ago and created a monopoly.