You still got to keep the games

Then perhaps everyone might migrate to those imitation steam platforms, perhaps made only to launch steam games(presuming all the account info remains relevant and accurate). I imagine someone might make another distro of steam(like how linux has 31+ flavors).

We will see when it happens really
But as many said, most likely someone else will buy Valve and you keep access, or Valve makes a way you can keep accessing with a forever offline mode of the like (you will have to download everything you want to keep maybe)
But in the end its hard to know till it happens

This was asked in the past a few times, and I am not aware of Valve giving a officel answer yet

Originally posted by Black_Blade:

We will see when it happens really
But as many said, most likely someone else will buy Valve and you keep access, or Valve makes a way you can keep accessing with a forever offline mode of the like (you will have to download everything you want to keep maybe)
But in the end its hard to know till it happens

This was asked in the past a few times, and I am not aware of Valve giving a officel answer yet

Why do you guys think we will still have our games? that we will still have an offline mode?

Cause the way steam verification works is you get a 30 day or so steam id tag access.

They are directly avoiding answering that question. I asked them directly and they refused and said to check the news pages on Steam.

It seems simple to me. All that's needed is a program that acts as a dummy Steam store. i.e. It tells all the games that they checked for updates and didn't find any, and lets them play in their current state.

This would let you keep anything you have downloaded. Of course there would be issues if a game got corrupted and needed a repair though.

If they fold, bye bye games. But somebody will buy them. It could be MS, or Ten Cent, Amazon, Nvidia. Someone will grab them.

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

So, serious question....

What happens if steam folds?

the games get creases :(

Originally posted by Shinoskay:

Why do you guys think we will still have our games? that we will still have an offline mode?

Cause the way steam verification works is you get a 30 day or so steam id tag access.

Becouse Valve is a company, not a person
Becouse even if the company dies the pepole keep living and this keeps effecting them and there further
You want pepole to remmber you for good, not for bad, if Valve go down and everyone suddenly loses hundreds if not more dollars of games just like that, it will not be a simple thing, and the pepole of the company will try to find a way to solve it, so pepole even if not happy be more ok with it
Beside its a huge market, and if there anyone to care about the Steam closing they likely a market that someone want to tap into
I mean if Valve dies but no consumers are left I don't think many will care it closes in that point

Originally posted by dgresevfan:

They are directly avoiding answering that question. I asked them directly and they refused and said to check the news pages on Steam.

It seems simple to me. All that's needed is a program that acts as a dummy Steam store. i.e. It tells all the games that they checked for updates and didn't find any, and lets them play in their current state.

This would let you keep anything you have downloaded. Of course there would be issues if a game got corrupted and needed a repair though.

I assume you asked Support? and you expect them to give you an answer that may become a PR and legal nightmare? I think they pick the safe route, its the smarter move to do, so you cant go and say "Hey Hey I spend this 10000000$ becouse you told me I will have something, I want my money back" sort of deal, its safer to tell you, we dont answer that

No its not great, but welcome to the legal age ^^

Precisely. But the idiocy is there are obvious ways to make everyone's games safe to a certain extent. You can easily program something to make them work without online Steam access.

This has been answered repeatedly.
They'd make a patch as to not require steam services, you'd have time to download everything.

Better hope to God you kept all those physical copies of games. They can't take those back unless they come to your house for them.

I'll personally buy the consoles that have the games I really want on them and live with that.

Since I can't get the games I really would love to see here (so far, anyways) I'd likely spend the ♥♥♥♥ load of money to get me the older consoles that I can play those games on and the physical copies for them.

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

This has been answered repeatedly.
They'd make a patch as to not require steam services, you'd have time to download everything.

Answered by who?

Originally posted by miakisfan:

Better hope to God you kept all those physical copies of games. They can't take those back unless they come to your house for them.

I'll personally buy the consoles that have the games I really want on them and live with that.

Since I can't get the games I really would love to see here (so far, anyways) I'd likely spend the ♥♥♥♥ load of money to get me the older consoles that I can play those games on and the physical copies for them.

Unfortunately unless you're talking about really old games and consoles I don't think this is as guaranteed as you think...

Considering how PS3 games and newer install patches etc. Maybe they can work without this.

But some PC games were sold as discs in the packaging but apparently contained little if any actual game data on the disc, so they couldn't work at all without downloads.

In other words some physical copies aren't physical copies at all. More or less decorative discs and packaging with an install code which is what you actually paid for.