you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 22 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Gabe Newell has promised that if Steam goes down you won't lose your library, but we only have his word as assurance.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    As great as Gaben and Valve are his word doesn't mean anything (it's not a personal attack either, it's just that it isn't anything binding). Luckily if they fail to keep their promises (or legally cannot) then the crack community will step in. I'm pretty sure they cracked Steam DRM ages ago. I remember a friend using it for Left 4 Dead back in the day.

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source. There just hasn't been any reason for it since currently that would only be used for piracy (in fact some "cracked" games have a mockup of the steam API that just returns the expected things as if it had contacted the servers). But the moment steam goes away I give it a couple of weeks until there's a GitHub implementing most of the basic stuff.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Do you have a source for this? People like to repeat this rumour but I've never found out where he promises anything like that.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments