Steam has a back up feature I have my steam games backed up on my NAS
Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??
64bithero@lemmy.world 1 month agoIf you had them downloaded yes. But if you didn’t and they disappeared?
agentTeiko@piefed.social 1 month ago
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com 1 month ago
And, friendly nudge:
It’s not hard to back up games from Steam. Especially those with no DRM. Just keep them on a drive somewhere.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Pretty expensive though, given the prices on storage. And many of them will be out of date in a few months. Face it, we can download from the high seas at any time, the only reason most of us are buying on steam is convenience. Whatever we could backup on steam today we could just retrieve from elsewhere at any time.
Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 month ago
I would just a get pirated copy.
I haven’t pirated games in a very long time, but this seems like a fair thing to do in such a situation. If the game is cheap and/or I like the studio, I would probably just rebuy on GOG.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
yep. the game exists somewhere. I’ve bought it. I have no issues pirating it to get access to it again. nobody has been hurt by this.