Little conversation I had with someone from Zoom Platform's staff:
The staff member:
Our (upcoming) stuff on steam is DRM free, its just a store front at that point
Me:
Btw, changing the topic for a bit (we were talking about something else), Steam's rules say, in short, that they offer a glorified rental. But since the game is still the dev/publisher's property, if they say you can keep the game in case the store goes "poof", would it be legal?
Also, will that be the case for ZP's games on Steam?
The staff member:
If you buy the game on steam, it will continue to work. Just keep a copy of the install
Ideally I would like to offer some way of porting steam purchases to ZP
Bit like humble bundle
steam key and zoom installer
something to think about, but the games on steam will continue to work if you keep a copy of them
if steam goes poof, its no different than if we did I guess
You got your files, its all good for long as you dont lose them
Which is no different than buying something physical IRL
its yours until it breaks/gets lost
(some miscellaneous messages later)
The staff member:
but we wont be using any of the steam DRM on anything from our store that gets a steam release
tl;dr: Zoom Platform plans to release games on Steam as well, but they plan for these games to be "yours to keep".
