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  • Steam has no limit to how hot it can get. Until it eventually transitions into plasma of course. By then the oxygen and hydrogen would have separated, I imagine. Then it’s no longer water.

    Superheated steam was a problem in some steam locomotives, as running the water level too low would allow the boiler to reach temperatures that would compromise the integrity of the metal.

    Only liquid water has the boiling point as a “limit”.












  • And it is only really a promise they can keep for their own games. Like I said in another comment, lots of game studios already ship their games without DRM.

    If Valve goes under, the games that are gonna be a problem are the ones from the likes of Ubisoft and EA.

    They wouldn’t lift a finger to make sure people who bought their games on steam could keep playing them if steam disappeared

    In fact they’ve been taking their games back even while steam is still around. Lots of people own unplayable games on steam because the publisher screwed the servers or something.


  • They don’t have to provide a way to install the games in perpetuity, but I’m pretty sure the ToS don’t provide a way for them to stop you from keeping a DRM free copy you’ve downloaded.

    So sure, the ToS says you don’t own the game, but unlike ubisoft that puts that non-ownership into practice, GOG makes that legal non-ownership utterly meaningless. If you have a copy of the game, then you have a copy of the game.


  • It’s just a folder. You keep the folder.

    When you want to run it, you go to the folder and double-click the .exe of the game.

    If you want, you can drop a shortcut to that exe somewhere convenient.

    “Installing” is just putting files in a folder somewhere, and maybe adding a shortcut to the start menu so the user can find and run whatever got installed. There’s nothing special about it.

    Unless the .exe needs some other program to be installed, or some files that need to be available somewhere else (which these DRM free games don’t), you can just move the folder the game is in wherever you like, another PC even, and it’ll still run just fine.