What if Steam just... stopped.

[cheese_wizington]

Nothing.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Id immediatly go and get a cup of tea.

 

[Kajt]

Someone would just come up with a "no-steam" hack to continue playing games normally but without steam.

The world would suck a little more without steam though.

I'd play World of Warcraft while waiting for this to happen.

 

[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?

Rats?

Yep! I own a pair of small furry mammals. Zirah who is a hooded champane and Bentley who is hooded black. They sleep in my clothing while I game. ^^

 

[Blackadder51]

I would not care as i dont use steam

if you dont care why bother answering to the question.
and i would get pissed if steam stopped

I would not care as i dont use steam

Thanks for the contribution guys. Maybe you could assume, as this forum clearly has nothing to do with you, that you needn't post anything. Why don't you go post "I don't care" on all the forum games?


Now this confuses me. As the OP clearly stated

What would YOU do?

And I merely answered with my response, ie I dont have steam therefore I would not care if this application stopped working.

So why dont all of you Shut the fuck up think about what the OP had stated before corrected me on such a trivial and incorrect assumption

EDIT: Well looky here, I actually am talking to the OP, well kind sir why dont you read what you said before quoting me mate

 

[SextusMaximus]

No coffee
Um... I guess someone would come up with a new interface to play games without steam.

 

[Lonan]

I barely even know what steam was until I learned I needed to install it to play Dawn of War II. I have to say steam is pretty gay if you need it to play a game. Can someone explain what Steam is? I feel out of the loop.

 

[The Maddest March Hare]

"Oh..glad I'm not a Steam user" -goes back to playing Xbox-

2 Years this month since I bought it. No RROD yet. I must be blessed.

 

[Kaymish]

i would bend over and let valve take their fill of buggering me in the hope that they will turn it back on

if not i will write or download a hack for it though its probably not going to be easy

 

[YurdleTheTurtle]

I barely even know what steam was until I learned I needed to install it to play Dawn of War II. I have to say steam is pretty gay if you need it to play a game. Can someone explain what Steam is? I feel out of the loop.

Steam is a mix of digital distribution, digital rights management, and communications platform from Valve. It is also used as a community/social network for select games, as well as haboring a place to shop for digital distributed video games.

You can buy games on it, you can use it to chat with friends, you can use it to allow you to play games, and publishers use it to distribute games and as a form of DRM (that doesn't suck as much as the other options).

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I'd be fairly angry, but not as much as someone else. I have some games on Steam but most of them were cheap and I enjoyed them thoroughly for a while (except 2 games, one I cannot play until I get a new PC and another that errors' up every time I try to start it).

Since I have such a bad PC I've been used to been left out of all the awesome games coming out recently, and being stuck with playing the same game for the last few years. I wouldn't smash objects and all that.

 

[maxxorz]

I wouldn't notice. I detest steam and the way it works. I want to be able to play my single player games without waiting for a quarter of an hour while steam boots up, and I don't want to rely on the internet for it either.

I'm gonna have to say that's probably your computer, more so than Steam. From the time Windows boots up on my machine, to the time I see the little friend boxes pop up in the corner, is about 30 seconds. I have never had a problem with Steam. It sounds like you just have old hardware.

 

[bride_of_lister]

I wouldn't notice. I detest steam and the way it works. I want to be able to play my single player games without waiting for a quarter of an hour while steam boots up, and I don't want to rely on the internet for it either.

Ouch? Is your computer okay? That sounds like a tech issue on your end than anything else.

 

[Jinx_Dragon]

I remember when a tree plunged into valves server room a few years back which pretty much killed of steam for a day. The post-apocalyptic uproar between my friends wasn't pretty, so I'd imagine that everyone who was planning to play games, would rage a forum about it instead.

Ding...

Exactly this. Expect the forums to explode with rage!