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.
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.