That's why I still can't bring myself to like Valve. I mean I can accept they do better than their peers today at trying to be good for it, but that's only because Newell started it all and sort of stayed consistent, but everyone else sprinted past him even closer to the proverbial pot of gold.
I literally just in the last six months used the legally obtained game assets from a CD I bought in 1995 to play a game. I didn't have to go re-buy it. I didn't have to go pirate it. I still had it because I bought it in a form that they can't confiscate. I could go sign into Steam today, find they delisted and cleared my entire library, and the only recourse I'd have is the "well sue us and our big pockets." Sure, so far they've been good and I think in general they are trustworthy, today. Tomorrow is a new day. For them to do that to my old physical games, someone has to come take them by force.
Thy are already partially doing that with unwanted updates and the same goes for woke gog too unless you download every version of every game a person has there.
That's why I still can't bring myself to like Valve. I mean I can accept they do better than their peers today at trying to be good for it, but that's only because Newell started it all and sort of stayed consistent, but everyone else sprinted past him even closer to the proverbial pot of gold.
I literally just in the last six months used the legally obtained game assets from a CD I bought in 1995 to play a game. I didn't have to go re-buy it. I didn't have to go pirate it. I still had it because I bought it in a form that they can't confiscate. I could go sign into Steam today, find they delisted and cleared my entire library, and the only recourse I'd have is the "well sue us and our big pockets." Sure, so far they've been good and I think in general they are trustworthy, today. Tomorrow is a new day. For them to do that to my old physical games, someone has to come take them by force.
Thy are already partially doing that with unwanted updates and the same goes for woke gog too unless you download every version of every game a person has there.