Gorfias said:
I do a lot of PC gaming. I'm getting some good deals on PS3 but PC has gotten ridiculous. Maybe a little too ridiculous.
I'm mostly worried about Steam going out of business. I have more games than I can fit on my hard drive. I hear if Steam does go out of business, they's allow you to download something that will allow you to play your games anyway: but you probably need to have them downloaded to begin with!
Anyone know how well they're doing?
While I'm at it, I'd just as soon not see many of the games I've gotten in bundles displayed. Anyway to hide things I'm not playing in a Steam list? My other idea is to just open a new account so I'm seeing different games based upon how I'm logged in.
Is this post for real? Oh it may be, ok. Well lets look at Steam active accounts just to have a peek.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/valve-steam-65-million-users/
http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5045830/steam-65-million-active-accounts-6-million-concurrent-users
65 Million active accounts, now dwarfs XBox live accounts at 45 million, don't know if those include Windows Live accounts, I have heard that it does. PSN is the top with 110 million.
I wouldn't worry about it, and even if Steam did shut down I have been through one before, they released all my keys, and allowed me to get a small compressed loader to re-install my games. Was not many though, just Dragon Age 2 and Lost Planet 2 both bought on sale for less than $10. This was just from a company that was being bought out, and they were not sure the new company would support all the games. I would have a lot of downloading to do though, as my Steam library is over 600.