LOL. It's what people get for trusting corporations with control over games. Just like I laugh at steam gamers when that's down. You agreed to it when you bought into Online Verifications and worse, now face the consequences. However rare, it still means that if they wanted to, or something happened, it could become permanent.
That and a ton of their "online only" games are cross-platform so it's easy to weed out the bad ones. Hell, last summer we had a neighborhood-wide power outage for almost a day (believe it or not it had to do with how much rain was pouring down and not one of those "grid" things). Thanks to two 10kW gennies I was able to play and beat RE4 while the rest of the area was on candle-light.
LOL. It's what people get for trusting corporations with control over games. Just like I laugh at steam gamers when that's down. You agreed to it when you bought into Online Verifications and worse, now face the consequences. However rare, it still means that if they wanted to, or something happened, it could become permanent.
TBF, I can still play all my games when steam is down. The library and launcher are local.
That and a ton of their "online only" games are cross-platform so it's easy to weed out the bad ones. Hell, last summer we had a neighborhood-wide power outage for almost a day (believe it or not it had to do with how much rain was pouring down and not one of those "grid" things). Thanks to two 10kW gennies I was able to play and beat RE4 while the rest of the area was on candle-light.