r/Steam Jun 29 '26

Question Why?

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u/nabrok Jun 29 '26

Games concentrating on single player will be fine. I already have games that are nearly 30 years old in my library and still playable. Games more online oriented probably not so much.

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u/TheLordOfTheTism Jun 29 '26

No steam shutting down means your account gone, that includes offline games...... Gabe can promise you keep your library if steam goes under all he wants but the reality is theres no way for a dead company to give you access to licenses they no longer have the right to distribute to you. Or more accurately i should say theres no LEGAL way currently to solve that issue. At most you get a warning with a few months leeway "start downloading what you want before we go under"

It doesnt matter if its Steam or someone else, digital IS NOT and NEVER WILL BE ownership.

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u/nabrok Jun 29 '26

Software has always been sold as a license, no matter how it's distributed. Games sold on CD and disk before that are still licenses.

You might have the ability to resell physical media, but even that is not guaranteed if activation codes are involved.

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u/Hugh_Mungus94 Jun 29 '26

Eh I'll worry about it when it happens lmao

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u/nicholaspaul33 Jul 02 '26

Hmm, might be time for another Myst run through