No, they just have some convoluted ability to preserve installations as done through Steam. When Valve's servers go dark for the last time your games are still gone and I wish people would stop fooling themselves into believing otherwise just so they can continue worshipping Gaben. Valve is one of the least customer-hostile companies in the industry but that doesn't mean they're without flaw.
It's not entirely impossible that Steam somehow survives to the final instant of history that someone operates a gaming PC, but it IS extremely improbable. Nothing is ever too big to fail.
Ah, true. I didn't fully read or think that one through.
Also can't remember if it worked in offline mode out of the box or not. Probably not if they were concerned about it being a piratey workaround for Steam's basic level of DRM.
Not that I think DRM has much value at this point, or if it ever really did in the first place.
Technically Steam lets you do that too, it's just a bit more of a chore than it is with GoG.
Steam lets you fetch the fully-functional install file?
No, they just have some convoluted ability to preserve installations as done through Steam. When Valve's servers go dark for the last time your games are still gone and I wish people would stop fooling themselves into believing otherwise just so they can continue worshipping Gaben. Valve is one of the least customer-hostile companies in the industry but that doesn't mean they're without flaw.
THIS. Don't even need to finish the point.
It's not entirely impossible that Steam somehow survives to the final instant of history that someone operates a gaming PC, but it IS extremely improbable. Nothing is ever too big to fail.
Ah, true. I didn't fully read or think that one through.
Also can't remember if it worked in offline mode out of the box or not. Probably not if they were concerned about it being a piratey workaround for Steam's basic level of DRM.
Not that I think DRM has much value at this point, or if it ever really did in the first place.