Posted September 22, 2021
mechmouse: Most of those people quote that long deleted post from long forgotten forum on a server that no longer exists, that a friend of a friend once saw a screen shot of, where Gabe promises to make all Steam games DRM free in the event Valve collapses.
Its a fairy tale Steam users tell themselves.
The post was never legally binding, it never could be, and yet a month won't go by without someone trying to use it.
Fascinating read: https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/1711816076697921219/ Its a fairy tale Steam users tell themselves.
The post was never legally binding, it never could be, and yet a month won't go by without someone trying to use it.
Some are aware of their eventual fate (I'll give it to them, it takes a certain kind of cold bravery to simply acknowledge the unpleasant facts of the path you're walking and accept them... a lot of people are not capable of that), but there is also lots of delusion.
Some talk about Gaby, their appointed dictator for life and how he owns 50%+ of steam and surely, Gaby got their back.
There are those that believe Steam will last Forever (comparing the end of Steam to some apocalyptic event like the end of the universe). Others think that if Steam goes, the gaming industry will collapse. Others yet, believe that people's outrage will be so great that they'll somewhat have to do something about it.
There is even a guy that thinks that because EULAs specify that its a license, we should just accept transience in something we bought and roll over.
This is human nature 101.
mrkgnao: Of course I do. It goes without saying.
And they don't have "to constantly go through the whole GOG library". All they have to do is write a program (once) that compares GOG's build dates to those found on SteamDB (would probably take an experienced programmer a few days to write such a program from scratch), run it once a day or so, and send an alert to some GOG staff member if a game exceeds some predefined thresholds.
Like any software, it will require some regular maintenance, but not a lot.
P.S. I also expect my supermarket to remove out-of-date products from their shelves (or at least mark it with a clear warning).
This looks nice on paper, but I believe GOG is a fairly small operations and based on my experience working in those, there is A LOT of things that makes A LOT of sense on paper, but that you simply do not have the time to do. You got to prioritize all the time and a lot of things that people will lament are not there will get pushed further into the future. And they don't have "to constantly go through the whole GOG library". All they have to do is write a program (once) that compares GOG's build dates to those found on SteamDB (would probably take an experienced programmer a few days to write such a program from scratch), run it once a day or so, and send an alert to some GOG staff member if a game exceeds some predefined thresholds.
Like any software, it will require some regular maintenance, but not a lot.
P.S. I also expect my supermarket to remove out-of-date products from their shelves (or at least mark it with a clear warning).
And that's even in the ideal situation where perfect decisions get made all the time. In reality, people are not perfect geniuses (both at the business and technical end of things) and make some mistakes and business needs shift and some time gets wasted for that.
That's life in small companies and it can be infuriating if you are a perfectionist (and I get it, I'm a devops, I just want to automate everything and remove all manual operations in persistent networked systems to reach greater reliability and save time, but it is a neverending task and things could always be just a little better).