How do get rid of Steam and keep the all the games I bought?

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I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this software. I regret buying games here. I can't stand the 35x Steam.exe open in Task Manager. I can't stand the forced updates every time I log in just to play for the sparse 15 minutes I have, waiting for downloading gigabytes of a single player game.
Steam has ruined my play time every time for last month, as I literally have 15-30 minutes here and there. I want to keep all my games but I want to get rid of this ♥♥♥♥ show bloated garbage.

What is the best way to keep the games but get rid of Steam?

[Ducks on Fire]

You don't.

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Also the latest SpaceEngine version does not work on my comp, but the previous version does. I spent a lot of time (hours) figuring out how to force Steam to download a previous version of the game, so I can play it. It worked for a little, but now I opened this garbage again and it forced a new update on me and the game does not work again. I do not want to go through the lengthy console and figure out everything I did last time to make it work. Every time I open this Steam garbage it ♥♥♥♥♥ everything up.

Funny thing is that I go right for the SpaceEngine.exe file to open, hoping to bypass this Steam.exe 35x instances from opening up, but Steam.exe is like a virus, I open SpaceEngine and Steam starts up and ♥♥♥♥♥ up the game folder, now saying ' corrupt files ' and game wont start. I can't stand this. I do not have time for this.

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Publicado originalmente por Ducks on Fire:

You don't.

Well one big lesson learned, that I will definitely warn anyone ever thinking of going in this ♥♥♥♥ show to buy a game and become a hostage, is to STAY AWAY and explore first every other option possible of acquiring a game elsewhere.

[MancSoulja]

Publicado originalmente por ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Publicado originalmente por Ducks on Fire:

You don't.

Well one big lesson learned, that I will definitely warn anyone ever thinking of going in this ♥♥♥♥ show to buy a game and become a hostage, is to STAY AWAY and explore first every other option possible of acquiring a game elsewhere.

If you don't like Steam try GoG, all their games are DRM free and can be played without the GoG client running.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Publicado originalmente por ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Publicado originalmente por Ducks on Fire:

You don't.

Well one big lesson learned, that I will definitely warn anyone ever thinking of going in this ♥♥♥♥ show to buy a game and become a hostage, is to STAY AWAY and explore first every other option possible of acquiring a game elsewhere.

I'm sure Steam will miss your whole 3 games purchased.

[One-Per-Cent]

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[SakeBito]

Lots of big fans of monopolies here, and of poorly-coded and even more poorly-maintained software. If Steam actually worked reliably it would not be a big deal. But just to get the desktop program to open I have to:

a.) log into "Steampowered.com" in a browser - which involves a-sub-1.) opening up the email account I keep to deal with this kind of crap, then a-sub-2.) entering username and password at "Steampowered.com," then a-sub-3.) waiting for a two-factor authentication code to show up in the email inbox (you'd think I was trying to hack into the Pentagon for some top-secret docs or something,) then copy-pasting that code into the spaces at "Steampowered.com," and then b.) opening the Steam program on the desktop and c.) entering username and password, again, and d.) waiting for the two-factor Jack Secret Code to show up in the email inbox, and then e.) copy-pasting the code into the spaces in the desktop window, and then f.) have the desktop window tell me "Unable to connect to Steam at this time. Try again later," and then g.) hit "Retry," and then h.) have the desktop window tell me "Unable to connect to Steam at this time, Try again later," and then i.) repeat this process ten to twenty more times before j.) the damned thing finally decides to open. Bravo, mission accomplished and we've completed Step One.

If you want to try to get one of the games you've bought downloaded and installed on your system, you k.) navigate to "Library" and click on the title you want to download and install, and then l.) click the blue "Install" button, which m.) does not work, and then n,) click on the dark horizontal bar at the bottom of the window that gives us the engaging fiction of "Starting Download," to navigate to the download monitoring window, where you see right at the top a readout beneath the equally-fictitious header of "Starting Download" that says "0bps Current, "0bps Peak," "0B Total" and "Obps Disk Usage, so you o.) click the blue button with the "Pause" symbol- on a vain hunch that a stop-start toggle might actually make this thing work - and then click the same blue button which now shows the "Play" symbol, so you can see the download p.) fail to start, and then you q.) give it time, on the theory that it's just having trouble with the digital handshake or something, until you r.) see a red notice that says "Connection time out," which is a mystery because no apparent "connection" to this Steam Borg server ever happened in the first place, so you s.) try it again, and then t.) try it again, and then u.) try clicking the "Steamworks Common Redistributables" download shown below it, on the theory that maybe this worthless software needs yet another update just to get going, which v.) does not work, so you w.) try it again to no avail and x.) try the pause-play toggle again in a vain effort to shake this thing loose, and y.) try to avoid ripping out your hair while z.) clicking the game title and trying that again, and then... hmm, I seem to have run out of alphabet here.

I submit that no game, in this or any other universe, is worth going through all of this insufferable sh**.

I. Just. Want. To play. A game.

All this Steam thing has to do is: Work.

And it doesn't.

So then I decide to go to the "Steam Community" to tell people about it, and... guess what? The thrice-verified and -dual-factor-coded and -entered and -passworded login I did to get logged into "Steampowered.com" does not even open the "Community" page. Oh nonononononono. It demands that, for the third time, you enter your username, and your password, and then wait for the Jack Secret Agent Man Code to show up in the email inbox, and then copy-paste it to the spaces, and then at last you've gotten to the "community." Where no employee of Steam/Valve Incorporated ever looks, and where you will get exactly zero of value except maybe some Beavis-Butthead-caliber potshots from people who, incredibly enough, think Steam/Valve Incorporated should be defended for its gutter incompetence.

Who is running this clown-parade? Where is customer support? And more to the point, where are the games I paid my hard-earned money for?

[chad💖(LOLYOU)]

3 games owned? i thought atleast 250 games Ngl

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Publicado originalmente por Leonardo Da Pinchi:

I'm sure Steam will miss your whole 3 games purchased. [/quote]

They wont care, since their modo operandi is scamming. I'll blow the approx same amt of cash searching for these games elsewhere to be purchased.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Publicado originalmente por ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

They wont care, since their modo operandi is scamming. I'll blow the approx same amt of cash searching for these games elsewhere to be purchased.

Scamming, for...being a storefront for games? How's that work exactly?

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Publicado originalmente por SakeBito:

Lots of big fans of monopolies here, and of poorly-coded and even more poorly-maintained software. If Steam actually worked reliably it would not be a big deal. But just to get the desktop program to open I have to:

a.) log into "Steampowered.com" in a browser - which involves a-sub-1.) opening up the email account I keep to deal with this kind of crap, then a-sub-2.) entering username and password at "Steampowered.com," then a-sub-3.) waiting for a two-factor authentication code to show up in the email inbox (you'd think I was trying to hack into the Pentagon for some top-secret docs or something,) then copy-pasting that code into the spaces at "Steampowered.com," and then b.) opening the Steam program on the desktop and c.) entering username and password, again, and d.) waiting for the two-factor Jack Secret Code to show up in the email inbox, and then e.) copy-pasting the code into the spaces in the desktop window, and then f.) have the desktop window tell me "Unable to connect to Steam at this time. Try again later," and then g.) hit "Retry," and then h.) have the desktop window tell me "Unable to connect to Steam at this time, Try again later," and then i.) repeat this process ten to twenty more times before j.) the damned thing finally decides to open. Bravo, mission accomplished and we've completed Step One.

If you want to try to get one of the games you've bought downloaded and installed on your system, you k.) navigate to "Library" and click on the title you want to download and install, and then l.) click the blue "Install" button, which m.) does not work, and then n,) click on the dark horizontal bar at the bottom of the window that gives us the engaging fiction of "Starting Download," to navigate to the download monitoring window, where you see right at the top a readout beneath the equally-fictitious header of "Starting Download" that says "0bps Current, "0bps Peak," "0B Total" and "Obps Disk Usage, so you o.) click the blue button with the "Pause" symbol- on a vain hunch that a stop-start toggle might actually make this thing work - and then click the same blue button which now shows the "Play" symbol, so you can see the download p.) fail to start, and then you q.) give it time, on the theory that it's just having trouble with the digital handshake or something, until you r.) see a red notice that says "Connection time out," which is a mystery because no apparent "connection" to this Steam Borg server ever happened in the first place, so you s.) try it again, and then t.) try it again, and then u.) try clicking the "Steamworks Common Redistributables" download shown below it, on the theory that maybe this worthless software needs yet another update just to get going, which v.) does not work, so you w.) try it again to no avail and x.) try the pause-play toggle again in a vain effort to shake this thing loose, and y.) try to avoid ripping out your hair while z.) clicking the game title and trying that again, and then... hmm, I seem to have run out of alphabet here.

I submit that no game, in this or any other universe, is worth going through all of this insufferable sh**.

I. Just. Want. To play. A game.

All this Steam thing has to do is: Work.

And it doesn't.

So then I decide to go to the "Steam Community" to tell people about it, and... guess what? The thrice-verified and -dual-factor-coded and -entered and -passworded login I did to get logged into "Steampowered.com" does not even open the "Community" page. Oh nonononononono. It demands that, for the third time, you enter your username, and your password, and then wait for the Jack Secret Agent Man Code to show up in the email inbox, and then copy-paste it to the spaces, and then at last you've gotten to the "community." Where no employee of Steam/Valve Incorporated ever looks, and where you will get exactly zero of value except maybe some Beavis-Butthead-caliber potshots from people who, incredibly enough, think Steam/Valve Incorporated should be defended for its gutter incompetence.

Who is running this clown-parade? Where is customer support? And more to the point, where are the games I paid my hard-earned money for?

Meanwhile I just need to...double click the Steam icon on my desktop, the desktop program launches and signs me in automatically. Sounds like...something on your end.

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Publicado originalmente por ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥:

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hate this software. I regret buying games here. I can't stand the 35x Steam.exe open in Task Manager. I can't stand the forced updates every time I log in just to play for the sparse 15 minutes I have, waiting for downloading gigabytes of a single player game.
Steam has ruined my play time every time for last month, as I literally have 15-30 minutes here and there. I want to keep all my games but I want to get rid of this ♥♥♥♥ show bloated garbage.

What is the best way to keep the games but get rid of Steam?

Not all games on Steam use Steam's DRM. Before you start Steam you can try to launch a game by going to the folder that the game is in and clicking on its executable.

Ah, now I see that you already tried that with one of your games. Did you roll back the version of the game using the betas tab? If you do that, Steam shouldn't force an update to the current version.

K1ltu_SE • 5 mo. ago
Hey thanks for reaching out! we offer a few older builds on steam find them by going to your library -> right click SpaceEngine -> manage -> betas -> and select the version you would like from the drop down.

https://www.reddit.com/r/spaceengine/comments/11pg7bk/how_do_i_find_specific_builds_of_space_engine_in/

If you only have about 15-30 minutes at a time to play. You can see if you like the road clearing/resource management/strategy/time management type of games at Big Fish Games https://www.bigfishgames.com/ . I play those types of games when I don't have much time to play (both on Steam and on Big Fish Games, but Big Fish Games does not require game updates so you won't have to wait before you can play). And as MancSoulja said, GOG https://www.gog.com/ is probably a better fit for you as it also does not require game updates either.