[Ken_At_EM]

Yes but if Steam shut down you’d have no way to get to the installers again and you’d be left crossing your fingers the machine you installed them on doesn’t die.

[shagie]

I've bought a copy of Iron Dragon for the PC - I can even find the license key in my ancient google mail. It was published by http://www.antigravitybox.com/ and the game's website is http://www.irondragon.org/

I don't see too much of a difference other than Steam has more proven longevity - even if the developers that sold games on Steam don't. I can still download Dungeons of Dreadmor from Steam even though the company appears to have disappeared in 2016.

[tokai]

Think it through. Of cause you cant get the games files if the provider goes offline. You can make a backup of any of your games in steam, which will make it possible to install it again offline on other machines.

[flohofwoe]

The game won't run on another machine, at best you have a two weeks time window before the DRM checks start to fail.

There's this family sharing thing though, where you can share your Steam library between 5 accounts and up to 10 computers:

https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing

[xen2xen1]

Hacks already exist to make the games not check the servers, and only stop working after new Steam updates. If Steam were to never update again it seems likely the hacked dlls would work forever.