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Questions from Patreon Part 46 - Your Favorite Games May Not Be Playable in Ten Years (Patreon)

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2019-06-15 15:59:27
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2023-05

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Previous episodes: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianSB/posts?tag=Q%26A 

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Questions from Patreon Part 46 - Your Favorite Games May Not Be Playable in Ten Years

You can send in questions by messaging my on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/SebastianSB/ Patrick Reed: What is your view on video game presivation? Before the advent of the PS3/360 consoles, We could play old games made over 15 years ago via emulation. With games now having an online component, and servers will not be maintained forever, which means we will not be able to play those games in the intended way in the future. Even Soul's servers on different platforms will most likly be shutdown at somepoint. And now with the news of telltale's minecraft not only removing minecraft story mode from stores, they are now removing the ability of people being able to redownload the game from servers in June. It casts a grim future of being able to play the games of the last 5 years (online and dlc content) in about 10 - 15 years. 1:00:25 Sathe: What would be the worst way to die in your opinion?

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Solus

steam have a promise that they still mention from time to time though. It is a promise that the games in your steam library will still be downloadable and in extention patched to work without steam. Most steam games have an offline mode as well allready built in unless you for the multiplayer ones. Those will die but singleplayer for most part keeps being around.

SebastianSB
>>23904665

It's an easy promise to make because you never have to actually commit to it. If they go out of business it won't matter what they ever said to you, as their company no longer exists. Their promises are moot. I especially disagree with your claim that the games will still be downloadable. From what servers? We can't even get game companies that still exist today to maintain servers for less popular games, but you think a dead company is going to somehow maintain servers for their dead store so that people can download their thousands of games? Who's going to pay for that?

Raf
>>23904665

Agreed, that's why I've switched to buying DRM-free games from GOG when possible, and stashing them on an external HDD so that one day my grandkids get to experience them (provided we don't kill our planet before then, lol)

Solus
>>23904665

It is to be done during the shutdown period if I recall but steam might have something else set up. you will not be able to buy new games obviously but their official responce is this one. This have been said by both gaben and their custum support several times. Haveing worked in custumer storage busniess myself allthough not close to the scale steam does there are actually companies with solutions for these situations. Allthough it would only apply to single player/local coop games games as multiplayer games are doomed the second the official servers are gone. Just to prove I am not talking out of my ass here is a link from 2018 on the very subject from the steam community forums. https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1736588252370389837/ The cloud functionallities will admittedly be gone though.