I’ve been a loyal customer on steam for 16 years and have over 400 games on there. Valve has never abused their power and I trust them for the time being. However none of that changes the fact that I don’t really own any of the games I bought through them because I have to log into steam to access them. And that kinda sucks and criticism of that is valid.
You only need to log into steam once to download it. After that you can go offline forever, and, unless I’m missing something, the game will always be playable.
Offline mode works on prior authentification. If you know of a way to access your steam games (even if you have them downloaded) on a new OS without using the steam client, I would be delighted to hear about it.
It depends on a game, some, rarely, you can just start, but most will check for a steam account to see if the game isn’t just copied. As far as anti-piracy measures go, it’s quite a tame one. You want them to allow you to just copy a game and start it, and it never how it worked.
So yeah, like I said, you need to login into steam once, and then you can go offline.
I’ve been a loyal customer on steam for 16 years and have over 400 games on there. Valve has never abused their power and I trust them for the time being. However none of that changes the fact that I don’t really own any of the games I bought through them because I have to log into steam to access them. And that kinda sucks and criticism of that is valid.
You only need to log into steam once to download it. After that you can go offline forever, and, unless I’m missing something, the game will always be playable.
Offline mode works on prior authentification. If you know of a way to access your steam games (even if you have them downloaded) on a new OS without using the steam client, I would be delighted to hear about it.
It depends on a game, some, rarely, you can just start, but most will check for a steam account to see if the game isn’t just copied. As far as anti-piracy measures go, it’s quite a tame one. You want them to allow you to just copy a game and start it, and it never how it worked.
So yeah, like I said, you need to login into steam once, and then you can go offline.
Buy your games from GOG and you can copy them over as many times as you like, they’re your files.