The next evolution is Gamepass. Once they get peopled used to games as a subscription the price will go up intil you’re paying more than you would’ve than just buying your games outright. At least Steam is not a subscription, and you can play locally even if the connection to the service is not available. So theoretically as long as you didn’t uninstall your games you could play them indefinitely.
Nope… Some games will fail to start if the “main” server is down or some authentication server or whatever server it nowadays might depend on. So even if you install a game now and let it rest of years, the changes it will start again over 10 years is very low. I’m not even talking about multiplayer, since multiplayer will be definitively broken by then. And LAN features are no longer implemented by game devs.
I do agree that gamepass will only make matters worse.
The next evolution is Gamepass. Once they get peopled used to games as a subscription the price will go up intil you’re paying more than you would’ve than just buying your games outright. At least Steam is not a subscription, and you can play locally even if the connection to the service is not available. So theoretically as long as you didn’t uninstall your games you could play them indefinitely.
Nope… Some games will fail to start if the “main” server is down or some authentication server or whatever server it nowadays might depend on. So even if you install a game now and let it rest of years, the changes it will start again over 10 years is very low. I’m not even talking about multiplayer, since multiplayer will be definitively broken by then. And LAN features are no longer implemented by game devs.
I do agree that gamepass will only make matters worse.
I’ve definitely played singleplayers when steam is unable to connect. You’re extremely confidentally wrong.