Dalthnock: Yeah, it's a mess. Like everything in life, you have to weigh the pros & cons of what you are about to decide, accept that you're going to get the good with the bad & select the option least likely to cause you trouble in the future.
And then fail miserably.
But seriously, I know it's risky putting all my games here, no matter how much I trust this site - which is a lot.
But the alternatives & all the hassle attached to them simply aren't worth it.
At the end of the day, they're just games. I'd prefer to have my mind free to track other things & have my time free to do something else than keeping a list.
wizardofid: I don't have a problem with, I lost content I got way back in 2000 recently, and a such I now have back ups of every thing. and that costs money, gog just makes it easy download the game, throw in a folder, and get around to it when it suits you.
With steam, there is also a few DRM free games, I have a such gone through them all and copied them to over to my digital folder and removed them from steam.It's a work in process but I like my folders neat and tidy, and stuff backed up as I go along.
I haven't backed up any stuff in the last 4 weeks, been swamped with other projects it's starting to eat at me how messy the folders are. I have file directory OCD
I used to have the same backup OCD. But I finally decided that it was completely unnecessary and all that time could be wasted on playing games or something else.
In the very unlikely event that GOG and/or Steam go out of business, AND don't have a backup plan for customers, then:
1 - They're just games.
2 - Every bit of the stuff that I used to waste backup tapes and Zip disks and external HDs on is out there on the Internet. If I need it I'll find it.
