“Why Owning Your Video Games Has Become More Important Than Ever”
Yes.
It is important. I don’t really get the valve dick sucking why would you put your hopes in rich cunts? They were forced to implement their refund policy don’t credit them for it.
It is very important especially for Valve users because when you die your licenses die with you. Those 5000s games in your library? Those tens of thousands of hours? Your whole Steam identity. Gone… Game libraries/accounts are assets that should be left to your friends and families.
Yes if steam were to catch wind that your big brother was dying of cancer and gave you his credentials then they will delete that account. It is not excusable and it’s pretty fucking hilarious to see Lemmy defend it from over the spectrum because they think Gabe is nice. It’s like yous just invent your morals on the spot.
honestly not that worried about it. if they try to fuck me with licensing nonsense i’ll just pirate it.
Same importance as owning anything else I buy.
How important is owning your own games to you?
Let me put it this way: I have nearly 5,000 games on Steam. It’s the one source of media I have no problem investing money into, because I agree with how Valve is providing the service.
It’s convenient, user-friendly, and easily exportable. I can go anywhere in the world, download my games and save files, and pick up where I left off. Which has been made even more convenient with the advent of the Steam Deck.
If I paid for a game, it’s in my library forever. Even if it gets removed from the Steam Store. And the regular sales/discounts ensure I can afford to have such a massive library. I would be severely in debt if I paid full price for my entire library.
If/when Valve loses Gabe Newell and the new CEO prioritizes profits over customer satisfaction, I will gladly switch to pirating and hoarding my own games.
I’m very much against subscription services and I firmly believe in owning everything I drop money on. I don’t play console games anymore because they’ve all been pushing subscription services, and with Sony in particular trying to push for people to not own games anymore? Fuck PlayStation.
This is also why I won’t use Epic Games. Their predatory business practices and poor customer service shows what a terrible company they are and I refuse to support a business that degrades and exploits the customer experience for profit. I will gladly pirate any exclusive they keep off the market, or wait until they show up on Steam in a year or so.
If everyone voted with their wallet, Epic Games would be forced to confront the fact they need to make changes to compete with the online gaming market, or go bankrupt.
and now, in this corner of Heaven…
All you need now is an endless hot wing buffet, a bottomless bag of only the dankest of nugg, and a troupe of nymphomaniac nudist college cheerleaders with no gag reflex and daddy issues.
all i’m saying is that you are living at least 1/4 of the dream. you even have somewhere to play them vs having them collecting dust in boxes in your attic.
Tough one. I’ve been playing video games since pong. I tossed a big stack of 5 1/4 floppies when I realized I’d never have another drive installed that could read them. Same with 3 1/2 floppies. I still have all the CD/DVD’s I’ve ever bought but have ended up re-buying on sale through steam or GOG when I needed a nostalgia hit because they just worked on modern systems without a bunch of tinkering. I can download just about any game I once had on either sized floppy and run it in dosbox. On modern systems, I’ve been on playstation and steam. Bought the PS5 with a disk drive and have installed PS4 disks but have yet to buy a PS5 disk, only digital which I prefer. I hate trying to find the disk, then find the case for the disk for the game in the machine. I also question what you own on modern games. Do you really want to play some of these games without the day one patch, or even the one month patch? What to do really own with a No Mans Sky launch disk if hello games disappeared and it could not be patched?
On the other hand, though I’m too much of a data hoarder to sell games used, I understand the desire. And having a kid that always wants the newest game for birthdays/Christmas but grandma has no real way to buy him the game specifically, I get physical for something to wrap and have under the tree.
In theory, I want to own my games but the history and reality of video games makes that a much more nuanced question…
Pretty important. If I paid real money for the game, I want to have it to play whenever I want in the future. I try to buy on GOG whenever possible, and I keep games I particularly liked archived on my NAS. For games that I’ve bought on steam that I really liked, I download the Fitgirl repack and back that up. If you can’t legally own a copy of your game, sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands.
And I have half a mind to to get a stack of archival blu-rays to back up some of my all time favorites, kind of just for fun and bookshelf fodder.
But I’m no archivalist saint, if a game sucked I feel no need to keep those files around.
Not that much since I rarely have any interest in replaying a game, but then again I never buy them for full price, I only buy them very cheaply on Steam sales. I have no idea why anyone would pay $60+ to “rent” a game, I’d just ISO it alongside buying it in such a case
