whenever a steam game gets delisted i automatically want that game in my library "just in case"
it is dumb
which is why i just bought an alan wake key for 4 bucks
@alyx I mean, it's a noble impulse. Like I like to say, preservation's my motivation~
@Skirmisher no one preserves anything by buying a DRM-riddled game on a centralized app store, which is what this transaction was
non-profits like archive.org, private collectors, and copyright-breaking torrents are more relevant to actual preservation i'd say
have you heard of japan's game preservation society? http://www.efgamp.eu/game-preservation-society-tokyo-japan/
pretty awesome group.
@Skirmisher ah i see
i tend to just think of it as an OCD impulse to hoard things i won't even ever play
it's interesting how i and so many others have (probably foolishly) allied ourselves with a DRM platform, steam, just because they got to us first and now feel like the comfortable norm
@alyx Yup! They got to us by including it with HL2, to which we all went "well, it's a good game, it's probably worth it" and then it snowballed from there. It's almost like a doublethink thing now (to use a cliché metaphor), like it's always been there. And really, they pretty much got to digital distribution first, so...
@alyx Oh, certainly, but...I guess I meant it's a subconscious impulse, since obtaining a Steam key feels at least a little more "legitimate" than​ just pirating it or something, however bullshit that "legitimacy" actually is. It's "preserving" easy access to the experience itself and the fact that you own it on Steam? I know that's how my brain works around these things.
I hadn't heard of them! They sound very cool ^_^