My concern with this and other platforms like gog is that I can be fairly confident valve isn't going under anytime soon, and that they have no interest in taking games away from people

I don't have nearly that same faith in a project that's only just started and doesn't have the amount of money behind it valve does

Sure, once you own these games you own them but that means having to store every single game I've bought somewhere incase they go under and it all vanishes

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The common thing between this and GOG is that they apparently offer DRM free games so if you've got the game backed up, you'll never lose access to it. If Steam suddenly disappeared, we'd all be fucked.

Oh and I mean since we're talking DRM free games, they'll get uploaded to torrent sites anyway. Don't even need to keep them backed up yourself.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At which point what's the point of even buying it if you're going to torrent it later on anyway though

Would have just the same claim to ethically pirate it if I were to buy it there as if I bought it on steam

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IANAL but is that really true? You don't "Buy" anything on steam, you're licensing a subscription to use the software under their terms. Downloading a torrent wouldn't be covered by that. Purchasing a game though and having the same data backed up on a device is covered (identical to a torrent download), at least I thought that was the legal case for rom's and such even being able to exist in the first place.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself

I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform

Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.

I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually

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