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GreenSpark 12 月 6 日下午 6:15

Game ownership and physical media

I would love to see an option for developers to implement where you can download fully offline games and their launchers for the sake of game ownership as well as allow the creation of a physical disk or USB or smth with the game installer on it, said option only becoming available after the user purchases the game, of course

I also think that if a person has old CD ROMs (such as myself) that they should be able to add the game to their Steam library for convenience as well as to be a launcher if the original one on the disk is out of service, with Steam providing a compatibility filter for older games. I have a physical copy of the original Dead Space that I just can't play anymore because after installing everything, the old EA launcher just won't work and it would be really cool to be able to put the game from the disk in my library

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Mad Scientist 12 月 6 日下午 6:17

They can do this if they want on their own site, using places that support offline installers like GOG, etc.

Steam is a digital distribution service.

The Devs can also make it so the game can be run by the executable without needing Steam if they want.

最后由 Mad Scientist 编辑于; 12 月 6 日下午 6:18

Komarimaru 12 月 6 日下午 6:19

Try GoG. Developers that are willing to do that, offer it there. Valve nor Steam are not going to add anything that affects their customers, aka, Developers.

Ben Lubar 12 月 6 日下午 6:42

The files you download from Steam are the exact files the developer uploaded. There's nothing special about the folder Steam downloads versus the folder any other platform would download. You can put the files in a zip or whatever or just use Steam's built-in backup feature. They're just files. As long as you're licensed to have the game, you can make as many personal copies as you want.

However, if you have a broken copy of a game from some other source, there's not really anything Valve can legally do to force it to work. It's not related to them at all.

最后由 Ben Lubar 编辑于; 12 月 6 日下午 6:43

Hikari Light 12 月 6 日下午 6:51

Offline installers do not mean you own the game.
You still only own a license to the game.
An offline installer only allows you to install the game without internet connection.

With older games, you need to contact the developers of the game if you want compatibility help, Steam does not develop games only sells them, so thus cannot help you.
Valve also cannot provide help for games they did not develop.

With the original Dead Space, only EA can help you.

Tito Shivan 12 月 7 日上午 3:11

引用自 GreenSpark：
I would love to see an option for developers to implement where you can download fully offline games and their launchers for the sake of game ownership as well as allow the creation of a physical disk or USB or smth with the game installer on it, said option only becoming available after the user purchases the game, of course

Up to the developers. Here they've always been free to not add the Dteam DRM Wrapper for their games.

引用自 GreenSpark：
I also think that if a person has old CD ROMs (such as myself) that they should be able to add the game to their Steam library for convenience as well as to be a launcher if the original one on the disk is out of service

Again it's up to the devs to make those retail keys redeemable on Steam.

Nx Machina 12 月 7 日上午 4:04

引用自 GreenSpark：
I would love to see an option for developers to implement where you can download fully offline games and their launchers for the sake of game ownership as well as allow the creation of a physical disk or USB or smth with the game installer on it, said option only becoming available after the user purchases the game, of course

Developer choice.

You do not own games, you licence them. Even GOG's offline installers come with a EULA.

引用自 GreenSpark：
I also think that if a person has old CD ROMs (such as myself) that they should be able to add the game to their Steam library for convenience as well as to be a launcher if the original one on the disk is out of service, with Steam providing a compatibility filter for older games.

I have a physical copy of the original Dead Space that I just can't play anymore because after installing everything, the old EA launcher just won't work and it would be really cool to be able to put the game from the disk in my library

You can only add games to Steam if they came with a Steam key code.

Origin the original client is dead. It is now the EA Play app and Dead Space runs on it.

最后由 Nx Machina 编辑于; 12 月 7 日上午 4:06

76561198407601200 12 月 7 日上午 8:17

引用自 GreenSpark：
I would love to see an option for developers to implement where you can download fully offline games and their launchers for the sake of game ownership as well as allow the creation of a physical disk or USB or smth with the game installer on it, said option only becoming available after the user purchases the game, of course

I also think that if a person has old CD ROMs (such as myself) that they should be able to add the game to their Steam library for convenience as well as to be a launcher if the original one on the disk is out of service, with Steam providing a compatibility filter for older games. I have a physical copy of the original Dead Space that I just can't play anymore because after installing everything, the old EA launcher just won't work and it would be really cool to be able to put the game from the disk in my library

Gog allows this. If the game you want is not on gog is likely due to them allowing this.

William Shakesman 12 月 7 日上午 8:52

引用自 The Living Tribunal：
引用自 GreenSpark：
I would love to see an option for developers to implement where you can download fully offline games and their launchers for the sake of game ownership as well as allow the creation of a physical disk or USB or smth with the game installer on it, said option only becoming available after the user purchases the game, of course

I also think that if a person has old CD ROMs (such as myself) that they should be able to add the game to their Steam library for convenience as well as to be a launcher if the original one on the disk is out of service, with Steam providing a compatibility filter for older games. I have a physical copy of the original Dead Space that I just can't play anymore because after installing everything, the old EA launcher just won't work and it would be really cool to be able to put the game from the disk in my library
Gog allows this. If the game you want is not on gog is likely due to them allowing this.

There are many such games not on GOG that also aren't on Epic. Does Epic provide this functionality too or is this another case of the usual fanfic people make about GOG?