İf Steam close all games are lost?
İ wonder a one question if steam servers are closed our all games in the library are lost ?
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Kargor 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:37am 
Yes.

EDIT: There might be a friendly publisher or two who might transfer some of their licenses to whatever service replaces them, but "don't count on it".
Last edited by Kargor; 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:41am
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense
Cathulhu 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:39am 
Steam exists since 2004 and its userbase is constantly growing.
There is nothing to indicate that Steam will shut down anytime soon.
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Steam exists since 2004 and its userbase is constantly growing.
There is nothing to indicate that Steam will shut down anytime soon.

İ know this is hypothetical

Valve is a big company they have a plan for this scenario, right?
Kargor 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:43am 
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense

So what? Buy your games from Epic -- do you really thing the chinese government will bail them out if they get into trouble?

Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Valve is a big company they have a plan for this scenario, right?

There isn't much they can plan for. If they are dead, they are dead. You can't just write a will that says "if we're dead then all download servers shall keep running".
Last edited by Kargor; 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:45am
Cathulhu 15 Apr, 2020 @ 6:44am 
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Steam exists since 2004 and its userbase is constantly growing.
There is nothing to indicate that Steam will shut down anytime soon.

İ know this is hypothetical

Valve is a big company they have a plan for this scenario, right?

I'm pretty sure they have one, but they haven't disclosed any details about that.
Originally posted by Kargor:
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense

So what? Buy your games from Epic -- do you really thing the chinese government will bail them out if they get into trouble?


Does epic have warranty?
Originally posted by Cathulhu:
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:

İ know this is hypothetical

Valve is a big company they have a plan for this scenario, right?

I'm pretty sure they have one, but they haven't disclosed any details about that.

Okay thank you for answers have a good games
Originally posted by Kargor:
Yes.

EDIT: There might be a friendly publisher or two who might transfer some of their licenses to whatever service replaces them, but "don't count on it".

Steam was a digital marketing not the owner of the games (if not made by valve) steam just a interceder our CD keys should work but how?
Tito Shivan 15 Apr, 2020 @ 7:31am 
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense
I've played the games I've paid money for. That sounds like putting game in Steam gave nothing in return.

In any case. Steam has stated several time that in the event of 'going under' they'd allow people to keep their games.

If you want a similar scenario that happened in the past of such a event you can read about Desura.

It was a fairly large 'Steam Equivalent' for indie games. It eventually went out of business. But Way before they closed doors they gave a fairly large grace period for people to download and backup their game libraries.
Originally posted by Tito Shivan:
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense
I've played the games I've paid money for. That sounds like putting game in Steam gave nothing in return.

In any case. Steam has stated several time that in the event of 'going under' they'd allow people to keep their games.

If you want a similar scenario that happened in the past of such a event you can read about Desura.

It was a fairly large 'Steam Equivalent' for indie games. It eventually went out of business. But Way before they closed doors they gave a fairly large grace period for people to download and backup their game libraries.


İ understand but this method is impossible sample i have got 34 game in my library i use steam for three years but some person use 10 years and he has got 1000+ game in his library how he can download all games ?

Also me i just have got 34 game (i not play 5 games in my library) how i install all games my games low size 7.5 gb big ones has got 80 GB,60 GB
nullable 15 Apr, 2020 @ 7:47am 
Originally posted by Kargor:

There isn't much they can plan for. If they are dead, they are dead. You can't just write a will that says "if we're dead then all download servers shall keep running".

Well they're not going to fold up overnight, it would be a pretty long decline and plenty of time to implement plans. Back in the day Valve stated they'd allow for DRM backups in the event Steam went away. But that was a long time ago and maybe the landscape has changed to so it's hard to say exactly what would happen, aside that it's not very likely in 2020.

Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense

Physical media doesn't last forever either, so it also doesn't make sense to buy. In fact nothing last forever, so it doesn't make sense to buy anything...

This is a concern people had early on and some holdouts continue to have. But digital distribution has become the name of the game for a lot of media. And there's always the "what if". What if any service you've spent money on shuts down? Well it's a problem. So it really just becomes a question of how likely that's going to occur. In the case of Steam it doesn't appear very likely. They're an extremely profitable company... especially compared to the number of employees they have. So unless Valve develops an aversion to money in the near future, wheeeeee!

Originally posted by Dean Winchester:

İ understand but this method is impossible sample i have got 34 game in my library i use steam for three years but some person use 10 years and he has got 1000+ game in his library how he can download all games ?

I've got a couple of hundred games. I don't think I'd end up trying to save even half... regardless people would either have to buy a lot of storage or get a little selective in what to save, assuming self-archiving games was the only solution offered in the very unlikely scenario Steam would collapse at the peak of it's popularity.
Last edited by nullable; 15 Apr, 2020 @ 7:51am
Tito Shivan 15 Apr, 2020 @ 7:59am 
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
İ understand but this method is impossible sample i have got 34 game in my library i use steam for three years but some person use 10 years and he has got 1000+ game in his library how he can download all games ?
That'd be me. I'm over 1100 games on my library.
Following the example of Desura IIRC you had like a whole year to backup your games. So that's a lot of time for your backup.

Of course storage is going to be an issue.

Originally posted by Brockenstein:
Originally posted by Dean Winchester:
Then giving money to games from here does not make sense

Physical media doesn't last forever either, so it also doesn't make sense to buy. In fact nothing last forever, so it doesn't make sense to buy anything...
Through the years I've lost more games due to misplaced, broken or lost disks than I've lost digital licenses.
Everything has its pros and cons.
Falsus Te Deum 15 Apr, 2020 @ 8:23am 
OP this is a possible reality with whatever digital gaming platform you are using. Steam, Origin, Uplay, Epic or whatnot. They might/Will go under at some point in the future. And each and every one might/might not have a backup plan for gamers.
To mitigate a possible loss, spread gaming thrue several platforms.

I have 1.2K+ games on steam and are not the slightest worried/conserned to lose them at some point in time, neither worried about losing my games on Origin or Uplay.

Things happen, things change, deal with it. No point to worry about the "what if's" they are numerous if you wish to worry about those, most are far worse than losing a gaming library.
nullable 15 Apr, 2020 @ 8:26am 
Yeah, people just like the idea if the disk is lost or broken, that's their fault and they can live with it. If Steam goes away that's out of their control. Regardless no one plans to lose or destroy a disk. Or have their whole library clobbered (house fire), but the feeling of control seems to give a lot of weight to certain concerns.
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