What if Steam just... stopped.

[TheSeventhLoneWolf]

I would probably cry myself to sleep each night.

[sub]Crying: "OH GOD, OH MAN, OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD!"[/sub]

I'd bugger of to play timesplitters. You can always join in.

 

[wordsmith]

go here [http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/index.php] and find out what the fuck was going on.

Then start looking for the no-steam crack.

 

[mezmerizer02]

Umm, I don't even know what Steam Engine is.

 

[Therumancer]

This isn't an issue with STEAM so much as an issue with all digitally downloaded media, and one of the reasons why my opinion of such services is negative. Without a fully functional disc in hand you have very little, after all any one of these services (D2D, Gamers Gate, STEAM) could go out of business, be shut down, or simply hacked out of existance. Then you lose pretty much all the stuff you bought from them. When the cost of DLing from one of these services is the same as buying a game physically in a store, I think it's a rip off.

Really the only ones who benefit from services like STEAM are publishers.

Now, one important caveat here: there are exceptions like when some of these services run "specials". For example downloading Overlord 2 with the previous two Overlord titles for under $10 is a fair deal under the circumstances. In general though the odds of seeing those prices ever becoming the standard seem to be unlikely. I generally tend to think that STEAM and other services should start with a 50% reduction from retail prices given both the risks and the lack of physical media.

Not to mention the gymnastics you sometimes have to go through to patch a digitally downloaded copy of a game, or even just to insert a registration code (which is kind of retarded to be honest when your downloading).

Also digital download services need to be policed a bit more I think. Some of the games carried by STEAM are apparently censored and not marked as such.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I probably wouldn't care. All Ive got on steam is TF2 and Gmod.

 

[Naheal]

I'd be steamed.

 

[Kenni-chan]

I wouldn't be that bothered. All my games are either Xbox or DS.
My graphics card is shit an' I ain't buying a good one for ages.

 

[w-Jinksy]

Bust out the shotgun and run around shooting things screaming "PEEElZ" as i would not be able to cope as nearly all my games are on steam.

 

[Paragon Fury]

I'd probably be a little pissed, as 5 of my 10 PC games would now be unplayable.....

 

[Paragon Fury]

I'd be steamed.

*Ba Dum Tish*

 

[Kokoj2]

I might actually hafta turn my 360 on and finish ODST.

 

[DDeathDay]

My clan would probably throw a funeral for Steam. Then move onto another...game..!

 

[Julianking93]

Sorry, but what the hell is Steam?

 

[Aesir23]

O_O THAT, sir, is blasphemy!

Granted, I'm mostly a console gamer, but there are one or two of my games that run so much better on the computer and they rely on Steam.

 

[Skeleon]

Hah.
I'd laugh.
Hahahahah!

This is the reason why I only buy physical versions of games (well, that and my paranoia that Steam is out to spy on us).
I hate this niggling feeling of not really owning anything with a digitial copy.

 

[Knaas]

alas the world as we know it, this evil world where only steambased games reign, would be a free, and safer world, where each game would live and breed freely on the gaming planes og gameutopia.... or... i dunno, play wow again?

 

[bride_of_lister]

...I'd go and play The World Ends With You or Professor Layton on my DS?
...Play flash games online?
...Go and carpent on Puzzle Pirates?
...SMS my friends?
...Read some fan fic?
...Read an RL novel?
...Play with the rats?

...Go outside?
Nah.

Eww! I gather you don't know how hot it is in Melbourne at the moment. (and I have to keep up my hacker tan XD)