GabeN has repeatedly said that if Steam is to go offline permanently, they'll strip DRM on everything you've bought and give you time to download a DRM-free version of the game. I'm thinking the big issue will be low download speeds since people will slam their content servers before doomsday (barring use of torrents). If you don't believe him then fine, but don't act like you know better. Because you don't.
GabeN also told us DRM is bad.
GabeN also told us store exclusives are bad.
Yet every single Valve game is a Steam exclusive with Steam DRM. So far GabeN's actions are the complete opposite of his statements.
Likewise there isn't a single example of a software distribution house going out of business and releasing updates post-death to remove restrictions from said software.
So exactly what evidence do you have, other than "GabeN said so"?
If Microsoft won't support them, than neither will anyone else.
Except Microsoft isn't stopping me from running my games, Steam is.
Tell that to MS. Valve isn't responsible for MS refusing to support their old operating systems. You're better off using Win10 + a VM to run your oldwarez. Though I strongly prefer GoG for games that old, when possible. Valve just doesn't make it easy.
Except Microsoft isn't stopping me from running my games, Steam is.
And how exactly would I run Steam in a VM running a Steam-unsupported OS? Show us.
Because MS says so. What do you expect when you're dependent on a closed-source OS from a company that won't give you true lifetime support?
Except Microsoft isn't stopping me from running my games, Steam is. There seems to be extreme confusion, so let me clear it up for you:
Microsoft not supporting an OS doesn't stop anyone running it.
Valve not supporting Steam stops people from running it, and blocks their Steam DRM'd games.
Imagine DOS also had Steam once. Would you also blame Microsoft if DOSBox can no longer run Steam games? What utter lunacy.
No you wouldn't. Why is Steam going to strip DRM on titles owned by XP/Vista owners but leave it in place for people running Win10? That's ridiculous.
Because Microsoft isn't stopping me from running my games, Steam is.
Steam is also selling games with minimum requirements on their store page Valve themselves don't support. Microsoft isn't selling XP and telling me those games will still run. It's Valve doing that.
They won't. They'll switch to a torrent system and give people some warning to get plenty of seeds started up. It would actually work.
Show us your Valve insider information to back that up, O wise one. Even GabeN never said anything about a torrent system.
Don't pretend you know more than what anyone else does, though . . . and why you want to blame Valve for Microsoft's crappy business practices is anyone's guess.
You're the one pretending. "GabeN promised a torrent system when he goes out of business!", LMAO.
Still waiting for evidence about these magical torrents that will arrive when Valve dies.
Also show us a single example of a software distribution company who was purchased / went out of business that removed all restrictions from their software retroactively.
Thanks.