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If anything ever happens to Gabe such that he can’t run the company, that’s the day I’m immediately downloading and backing up my entire steam library to a hard drive.

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Wouldn’t those games be locked up through steams DRM?

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Some games from Steam can still be used without Steam’s DRM. It’s a little difficult to pull it off, but it can be done

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A lot of games don’t require Steam’s DRM, you quit Steam and launch through the Steam directory and it still works. I haven’t tried it, but I’m pretty sure I can copy that game to a computer with no internet access and no Steam client and it’ll work. I haven’t done that though, I’ve only done it when I forgot my kids were playing on my account on another computer and wanted to play a game.

A lot of games don’t work this way, but a lot do. Try it for yourself.

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Even then. If steam actually locks out out of your games, then I bet hacked will quickly put more effort to sidestep the drm and make that more easily accessible.

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Drm on Steam is optional. It’s up to the dev whether to include any or not.

However, if the game uses any steam features, like achievements, voice chat, leaderboards, etc., then those won’t work without steam.

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Yarr. Want some crack, kid? Harr.

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AFAIK steam has optional drm. If the devs dont use it you can play the games without steam. I think it says on the store page if it’s drm-free

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