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If that is true, that is yet another reason not to trust your games to cloud services of any kind.
If that is true, that is yet another reason not to trust your games to cloud services of any kind.
Steam is just a marketplace to buy games. The games themselves could have security issues if they use online services, but that's their own issue.
If you have 200 games in your collection you might have 3 of them installed. If Steam goes *pooff* then most people's collections will be gone because most people won't have a copy of their stuff and Steam does not facilitate a way of achieving that (in comparison to places such as Gog, itch.io or Zoom, which make it a no-brainer to install games independently from their services).
It's not just that they "don't facilitate" a way for users to "save away" a copy of the game. When you "buy" a game on steam, you never really *BUY*
It's not just that they "don't facilitate" a way for users to "save away" a copy of the game. When you "buy" a game on steam, you never really *BUY*
They don't? Years ago, Steam allowed you to back up your games and had an option to make ISOs or burn the backups directly to DVD-R discs.. I suppose now that most PCs these days don't have optical drives, they could still let you save backups somewhere, but maybe they've removed that option altogether?
It's not just that they "don't facilitate" a way for users to "save
away" a copy of the game. When you "buy" a game on steam, you never
really *BUY*
They don't? Years ago, Steam allowed you to back up your games and had an
option to make ISOs or burn the backups directly to DVD-R discs.. I
suppose now that most PCs these days don't have optical drives, they could
still let you save backups somewhere, but maybe they've removed that option
altogether?
I have never seen such an option. If anybody knows where it is, I am eager to hear about it.
However, it seems to me the standard way of backing up a Steam game is to copy the folder it is installed over to an archive, alongside some wrapper that mocks Steam's DRM.
I have never seen such an option. If anybody knows where it is, I am eager to hear about it.
I haven't been on steam for years but I used that option to backup and reinstall games in the past. I'm sure if I looked through my stack of disks I could find a few of them.
I did a quick online search and so far it seems that Steam provide a way to pseudo-backup your games using their UI. By the look of it, the intent of such is that if your PC crashes you can re-import your game library into a new PC rather than redownload all your things.
It still leaves me cold as an alternative because your copies of the games are still linked to Steam and so far this pseudo-backup functionality is clearly less complete
than just copying the game files over to archival media alonside a Steam DRM mocker.
I did a quick online search and so far it seems that Steam provide a way to pseudo-backup your games using their UI. By the look of it, the intent of such is that if your PC crashes you can re-import your game library into a new PC rather than redownload all your things.
It still leaves me cold as an alternative because your copies of the games are still linked to Steam and so far this pseudo-backup functionality is clearly less complete than just copying the game files over to archival media alonside a Steam DRM mocker.
If you count on Steam existing forever you may as well not backup your games since you believe you will be able to grab them from their library anyway.
How is that a "pseudo" backup? It sounds like it achieves the intent.
It still leaves me cold as an alternative because your copies of the games are still linked to Steam and so far this pseudo-backup functionality is clearly less complete
No, it is a complete backup.
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