>get an early christmas gift from your gf, it's some steam gift cards>load them on to your account and buy some games>start download>...>what the fuck? It got to 5% and now the download just stopped???>turns out the servers are down>games are literally stolen from you for the foreseeable future even though you already paid for itThis is why physical is still king
>>729266781>games are literally stolen from youYou're retarded.
>>729266781>pay for physical copy of a game on Amazon >game is stolen from you until the package arrives at your house
All it takes is a single house fire or natural disaster to wipe out the physicalcel's entire library, I'll stick with Steam.
>pay for physical copy of a game>future ex-gf burns it along with your house after the break-up
>>729266781works on my machine
>>729266781Epic Games Store doesn't have any issues and they're giving away some EPIC games for FREE. I think it's time for us to switch over fellow Steambros.
>>729267015Not on mine… I’m trying to redownload the oblivion remaster and it just doesn’t fucking work. The game is literally stolen from me until god knows when even though I spent 50 fucking dollars on this. I’m going physical only now, thank God I own a Switch 2
My games.... my games that I own... GONE....
>>729266781STILL. NOT. USING. EPIC.
>>729267237this
>>729266886That’s not how it works and you know it, don’t be disingenuous
>>729267146>oblivion remasterYou deserve far worse than just having a game "stolen" from you temporarily
>>729266920>he doesn't store all his physical copies in a fireproof safe in a fireproof vault located in a saferoom in a fallout shelterNigger are you fucking retarded?
damn this shit is still down? I noticed people talking about it hours ago lmao
>>729266781Servers hosted in So Cal which is currently playing subnautica
Imagine being a physicalcuck in 2025, enjoy getting looted and pillaged by niggers
Works on my machine. Reminder that anti-steam cultists are everywhere.
>>729267374>30 years later>games unplayable due to disc rot>money stolen
>>729266781>games are literally stolen from you for the foreseeable future even though you already paid for itProbably less than 48 hours. Given how big Steam is I'd imagine they've got some on call server technicians and shit who have to work holidays
>>729267429>So CalStop deadnaming Arizona Bay, bigot!
>>729266781I figured it wasn't just me.
>>729267320It is if they deliver to the wrong house
>>729266781>get an early christmas gift from your gfnot my problem
>>729267378No.
>>729267486go to the steam store page
>>729266781Didn't steam give everyone L4D2 last time this happened on Christmas?
half life 3
>>729267486>anti-steam cultiststhe fucking irony holy shit
>>729267771I'm busy looking for oil.
>>729267550Huh?
>playing an online game>internet goes downWHAT THE FUCK MY MONEY WAS LITERALLY STOLEN FROM ME???
>>729267957The reason people like Steam:>it works well>good prices>ratings directly on games>made PC gaming easier and betterThe reason people hate Steam:>spooky DRM! oooooohhh>hypothetical doomsday scenarios>Steam is reducing their profits (C-suite executives and shovelware devs with games that are shorter than the refund window)>they got banned from posting on the forums for saying the nigger>eliminated physical, so they can't add games to their autistic collection of funco pops, anime figurines, and pokemon cards>religious nutjobs who are offended by the sexual content
>>729266781Not my problem.
>>729268410>GOG gets shut down due to no one buying games>they still keep the servers up for you to download games you already bought>Witcher 4 flops hard so CDPR goes out of business and takes the servers down as well>Your hard drive gets destroyed in a house fire>money forever stolen, can never get your GOG games backWOW
>>729268410I agree. I switched to GOG recently, and just bought the Mass Effect Trilogy, Pragmata, Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, the Katamari games, Space Marine 2, and all the Final Fantasy games. GOG truly has all the games you could ever want.
>>729266781>le stolenOffline mode does exist, not that it even kicked in for me today as far as I'm aware. I've logged into the Steam client and played games during this outage without Steam ever saying OFFLINE or whatever at the bottom. It wasn't because I was already running Steam either, because I rebooted my PC completely within the past hour or so, and Steam still opened. I do see that the Steam web site and the community shit within the client are fucked though. Sucks for online multiplayer I guess.
>>729266781sure, i will just buy a CD-ROM and put it in my disc drive......
>>729268536Download them from torrents.
>>729266781Hanging out with your gf on christmas eve... and you go to your PC and look for games to install?
>>729268941>not having a disc driveAbsolutely grim
>>729268953>lol your games got stolen? Just steal them back broWow, what a genius you are.
>>729266781Downloads still work retard.
>>729269009What would you even use a disc drive for in 2025?
>>729269009post a pic of yours. dont forget the time stamp
>>729266781>your gfGTFO my board RIGHT NOW, normalfag
>>729269041My old games.
>>729266781My gf got me a slow cooker :)
>>729269235I actually have a wife
>>729269041Installing games when Steam is down.
>>729266781>your gf
>>729269041My car still have a cd-mp3 player.
>>729266781>oh nononononono
fitgirl repacked makes sure i have physical copies of any game i want though?
>>729269041playing audio CD'sburning roms to disc to play on a Dreamcastinstalling physical games
>>729269493That is a point people here are not ready to discuss.
>/v/3 expo starts in 30 minutes>nobody will be able to wishlist our gamesREEEEEEEEEEDo watch though https://youtu.be/k6XxBTHZBhA
>>729269041like giving niggers job appsthey wouldn't know what to do with them LEL
what are we crying about now?
just change server location, retard.
>>729269134>take a photo inside your home with a smartphone and then put it on 4chanSimply no.If you doubt that DVD drives exist, go look up a picture of one on Google Images.If you think it's impossible for someone on a video game board to have a device commonly used for reading old video games from physical media then take your meds and go to bed.
>>729269773i know they exist. I don't believe that you have one.
>>729269345Why would you need a disc drive to install games while Steam was down? Are you on dialup?
>>729269892Then you're schizophrenic. There's no reason to assume a random person is lying about owning a basic thing like that.
>>729269962Do you know where we are?
>>729269019Technically, if you own a license to the game anyways it isn't stealing.
>>729269773what a fucking pussy.
>>729269962called your bluff, i see.pics or i did't happen
>>729266781>Ho ho oh no.Imagine collecting a paycheck to write this. I'm so glad Andy will be flipping burgers by the end of next year.
>>729269041Ripping CDsRipping DVDsRipping ISOs
>>729269235Thread should have ended here.
>>729270101Yes. A board with lots of schizo freaks who believe insane things like "anon must be lying about his desktop computer having a disc drive".
just let them queue up to download and spend time with your girlfriend and your family. dont be in a rush to go back to your video games
>>729270218Everything you can think of is already ripped. You can find DVD ISOs of Car 54, Where Are You?
>>729270391Not everything, no.
>>729270151For what it's worth, mine is actually an internal disc drive, not a USB one. I still have nothing to prove though, because I checked PC Part Picker and I can see that some of these things are still available, and so no one should doubt that I own one even if it weren't the case that I actually bought it over 10 years ago.
>>729267146>>729267320>delivery driver gets stuck in trafficGame literally stolen for god know how long.
>>729267476>he'd let himself get looted by niggerskwab
I'm going to redeem this card
>>729266781>gf
sisters gaben just entered my computer and stole my games! help help help!
There is an expo of indie /v/ games tonight will anyone even be able to wishlist the games now? Oh well.GET IN HEREhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6XxBTHZBhA
Physical games are literally a dead end.
steambros... its over...
>I just double shillposted the same thread
>>729271089>some autist on youtube thinks he speaks for the entirety of /v/this reeks of faggotry.
>>729268237>>eliminated physicalA lot of people don't remember just how annoying physical PC games were with DRM. Either you had to have the CD physically in the drive even though it was installed on your system. Then they moved onto CD keys, but then people figured out how to crack them. Then they started hiding cryptic shit in the instruction manual. That said, I still find it sad that it's just not even an option anymore, and that it's going away from consoles too. A lot of the time, disc copies work better than what's currently available on steam.
>>729266781>Have to fuck your gf because server downTerrible
>>729267486You don't need Steam to play Factorio, you fucking imbecile. You've just outed slave as an anal slave cultist of a corporation. Any corporation.
>>729271273That's the spirit!
>>729266781I hadn't opened steam in ages, even River City Girls got a random update. But games that are DRM free on gog or just use Steamworks work offline. For the billionth time.>>729267771
>>729271447Ok let me see...>close steam>double click Factorio.exe>steam boots up>loads factorio fine
muh steam friends list wont load :(i was gonna go through and buy them stuff that was on their wishlists
>be jeet>see that Steam is having outages>praise vishnu for doing the needful for tim sweeny>have no idea that downloading your shit works fine and shit is partitioned out for this exact scenario of faggotry
>>729266886>break physical copy in fit of rage>game is literally stolen
its never coming back
Still not gonna use epic Rajeesh
>>729271585you have to stop being a retarded corpo slave, you anal cultist.
>>729272058>No achievementsPretty gay
>>729272058Not him but I pirated it and use Steam to play my cracked copy online.
>>729272153cucked brainlet>>729272180faggot normie
