LCPGOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”
AbsoluteChicagoDogThankfully if GOG goes down I don’t lose anything.
Now if Steam goes down, I lose my entire library
AidoGabe Newell has promised that if Steam goes down you won’t lose your library, but we only have his word as assurance.
ugjkaAnything that uses steam apis and services won’t work without steam and steam offers a lot of that to game devs
But the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source. There just hasn’t been any reason for it since currently that would only be used for piracy (in fact some “cracked” games have a mockup of the steam API that just returns the expected things as if it had contacted the servers). But the moment steam goes away I give it a couple of weeks until there’s a GitHub implementing most of the basic stuff.
woelkchenBut the APIs are public, so they can be reimplemented in open source.
And have been since years: https://mr_goldberg.gitlab.io/goldberg_emulator/
No doubt the corporate drones that take over after his death will shit all over his legacy.
It’s one of my biggest fears, but I guess there’s always piracy especially for old games.
JackbyDevAs great as Gaben and Valve are his word doesn’t mean anything. Luckily if they fail to keep their promises (or legally cannot) then the crack community will step in. I’m pretty sure they cracked Steam DRM ages ago. I remember a friend using it for Left 4 Dead back in the day.
Do you have a source for this? People like to repeat this rumour but I’ve never found out where he promises anything like that.
web.archive.org/web/…/showpost.php?p=16095809&pos…
There’s this, the original comment lost to time, but a link to an alleged direct quote from GabeN.
In addition to that forum archive, here’s a Steam support response via Reddit: reddit.com/…/i_asked_steam_support_what_happens_t…
Gabe Newell is much more likely to go down before steam does. his words mean nothing for the future.