Do I own my games or not?

[Zoltan]

I was around back when STEAM started. It took time to trust them that they will be around long enough from buying the games that were on disk to buying them on steam and still owning them.

Now I am being told I don't own my games that games are only a service.

What the Hell !

We need to know if steam is sticking to the original plan that we own our games.

[Piston Smashed™]

Publicado originalmente por Zoltan:

Well I have a surprise for you.

Some day we are going to be able to have AI make our favorite game. Maybe it can put all our favorite games into one game.

Then I will think back on what Steam tried to pull off and laugh how they should have been more customer friendly. There is no reason why we cannot own our games.

Game development will be a thing of the past. I will remember when the big ones started getting too greedy and now they get nothing.

You can OWN your games, you just have to create your OWN game, buying games off Steam or else where will not give your ownership of a game. All you OWN is a license to play someone else's game.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Zoltan:

Some day we are going to be able to have AI make our favorite game.

Don't get your hopes too high.

[ุ]

Publicado originalmente por Tito Shivan:

Publicado originalmente por Zoltan:

Some day we are going to be able to have AI make our favorite game.

Don't get your hopes too high.

I mean people use AI to cheat on exams, steal artwork, and spread propaganda. So you know people are going to try to profit off it by using it to rip off popular game franchises.

[Piston Smashed™]

I'm dreading the time when games are created by AI, it'll just be another topic for people to moan about the current crop of games and how Steam is doing nothing about it.

[ุ]

Publicado originalmente por Piston Smashed™:

I'm dreading the time when games are created by AI, it'll just be another topic for people to moan about the current crop of games and how Steam is doing nothing about it. :lol:

Even though Steam doesn't allow AI created content on their platform, you KNOW people will try to use it as an example to bash Steam.

[Zoltan]

You would think the AI in games could at least be better. Think more like a player. I doubt Steam will block all AI or even if they could.

There are a lot of people losing jobs from it.

[Tito Shivan]

Publicado originalmente por Piston Smashed™:

I'm dreading the time when games are created by AI

Remember when random generation promised us infinite amounts of content?

AI is going to be the same.

[fluxtorrent]

This new rant is hilarious coming from someone pretending it's everyone else living in a fantasy world

[xBCxRangers]

Publicado originalmente por fluxtorrent:

This new rant is hilarious coming from someone pretending it's everyone else living in a fantasy world

Lol, all i know, is i play on console, decades old, offline and no longer supported, and nobody is taking away, barring me from, or altering MY games. "My" means mine, all mine. Digital or otherwise.

All this talk is to give Valve, MS and Mr Newell a pass. The answer to the OP, is consoles.

[fluxtorrent]

Publicado originalmente por xBCxRangers:

Publicado originalmente por fluxtorrent:

This new rant is hilarious coming from someone pretending it's everyone else living in a fantasy world

Lol, all i know, is i play on console, decades old, offline and no longer supported, and nobody is taking away, barring me from, or altering MY games. "My" means mine, all mine. Digital or otherwise.

All this talk is to give Valve, MS and Mr Newell a pass. The answer to the OP, is consoles.

and yet it lives so rent free in your head that you waste hours whining about it

[xBCxRangers]

Publicado originalmente por fluxtorrent:

Publicado originalmente por xBCxRangers:

Lol, all i know, is i play on console, decades old, offline and no longer supported, and nobody is taking away, barring me from, or altering MY games. "My" means mine, all mine. Digital or otherwise.

All this talk is to give Valve, MS and Mr Newell a pass. The answer to the OP, is consoles.

and yet it lives so rent free in your head that you waste hours whining about it

MINE. Not yours. Not Mr Newells. Not Valves, EA, MS, Licenses or others. MINE.

[fluxtorrent]

Publicado originalmente por xBCxRangers:

Publicado originalmente por fluxtorrent:

and yet it lives so rent free in your head that you waste hours whining about it

MINE. Not yours. Not Mr Newells. Not Valves, EA, MS, Licenses or others. MINE.

yes, your hours, wasted

[fluxtorrent]

I mean the number of hours you've wasted here complaining that the world isn't the way you wanted, you could have actually been playing those games that are still not yours. That will be just as worthless when your console craps out or power goes down.

[xBCxRangers]

Publicado originalmente por fluxtorrent:

I mean the number of hours you've wasted here complaining that the world isn't the way you wanted, you could have actually been playing those games that are still not yours. That will be just as worthless when your console craps out or power goes down.

True, in fact, i'm gonna pump up the old 360 and play that first MXGP game. That was the best of them all. Those European fellas sure know how to ride, AND create a game, that is, and will always be MINE.

[fluxtorrent]

I guess some people DO live in a fantasy world