Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 will lose access to all the games they've bought within the next couple of years
Didn't this situation already happen once with OnLive?
rawb
Sunday, July 24, 2022
This happens over and over again for different services
Hell, we talked about the Nintendo Satellaview the other day. Thats a super old example of the same thing
unless you downloaded that shit, a lot of those games are just lost to time
I mean, steam could shutdown tomarrow, and we'd get fuck all and have to live with it 😉
true
steam shuts down I just torrent all my games
only reason to keep a steam library is I like steam as a service
Already have a 2tb drive with backups for me. lol
Steams not going to shutdown though,
whether or not you believe Valve would distribute files like they used to say they would, Steam is a massive billion-dollar service that has a virtual monopoly on PC software distribution
very very true
unlike Stradia or whatever
Epic can barely harm them by using chinese money to lock down games for a year
and by barely
I mean not at all
Stadia is going away, within the next 3-5 years depending on how long you think Google will keep support open
how cheap is the Stadia hardware anyways
and there are people actively building their game collection there, paying $60 for new AAA games as they release
technically free, since you can DL the app and use a 3rd party controller
Replying to sudo TPK #sylfar And while Google could afford to keep Stadia running with no problem, if it continues to be as big of a financial loss as it is, they have zero incentive to.
The only reason google would keep something running is if it becomes a monopoly
but if you want the 1st party stuff, it's $50-$100, the service is $11.99/month, and then games are full-priced
they run youtube at a loss, but it is such an important thing to own
that its worth it
well, they run it at a 'loss'
I am sure they make the difference with selling data
Stadia is basically just google throwing money at trying something
Right now, the play they're making is selling and integrating the underlying low-latency tech to other companies
I've had game stores go under I used to shop on, before Steam became 100% open to indies
Desura being the one that I lost the most stuff on
but those were mostly $5-$10 games, maybe a $100 all-in
people have sunk hundreds or thousands into Stadia libraries
sold, sold and then went bankrupt, sold and then went bankrupt
good history
I don't think I've actually lost digital games from stores being shut down. The closest I can think of is buying a game that used eLicense, the company shut down and stopped selling, and if you want to install the game on a new computer and register it, you have to contact the company that licensed the eLicense software to the publisher that shut down.
I've lost nintendo wii eshop games, that is the closest thing I have experienced
I used to buy those pack-in games like Plants vs Zombies on a couple storefronts too
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I've lost nintendo wii eshop games, that is the closest thing I have experienced
Actually this is true; I completely forgot about the Wii Virtual Console and the Wii U eShop, but that's because I put homebrew software on my systems and backed shit up, and can flash shit onto the systems at any time.
I don't care to hack my systems
I like that nintendo stuff has such good ROM/emulation
I can find just about any obscure game I want to, forever
for any Nintendo console
Yeah, other than some edge cases, like emulating 3DS controls for games like Kid Icarus
nintendo emulation is really good
the availability of the ROMs is also amazing
they're just.... all there
Yeah
As they should be
Honestly, all games that are not being sold should be freely available
When I was doing my stupid rance playing, I learned that alicesoft made a lot of their old games freeware and just released them all, and I wish more companies just did that
That reminds me, Robs stupid public domain statement is getting closer
this is actually shocking to me
phijkchu should release urealms live on steam as a standalone game then
:Kappa
the entire world is like this, not just America
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak That reminds me, Robs stupid public domain statement is getting closer
Public domain statement?
Rob made some bs statement that all of his stuff would go public domain in 4 years
during one of his breakdown arcs
<2.5 years!
of course you can
Rob has no idea how copyright law works, but you can denounce ownership of anything at any time
given you actually own it
Rob doesn't have any formal IP codified anyway
His whole statement was that he'd release assets of everything he's worked on
and consider that releaseing it into the public domain