Hi, i am kind of old now and i realize that i have accumulated a lot of games over the time.
I am mostly a GoG user and lesser a Steam user. Though i like Half-Life but since this will never get a conclusion its a little dull to me.

I am pondering if i should just quit Steam and let all the games i bought to toss.
I can tell that most games i own went out of favor for me. Like CoD or titles like that.
Doesn't make really sense, doesn't it.

I did, however, trashed Rockstar Games because of their own login scheme. After losing my password and email, i wasn't able to play Max Payne 3. So i just made the cut with it and will never buy a game from them.

So, did anyone quit Steam, ever?

Please share.

I was the other way around. I went years without using Steam (boycotting) because of the concept. I don't know, perhaps the first 10 or so years of Steam's existence I avoided it all costs, including doing without a couple of games I wanted to play but they required Steam. I was hoping this new fangled, "friendlier" DRM scheme would fail.

After so many years and it got so big, I knew the "election was called" so to speak. Consumers had spoken, and given Steam it's approval. And just like when the guy I voted for loses an election (which is every time), I just had to live with the new reality. So I bought those couple of games I had wanted for a few years and now use Steam.

So I guess I originally quit Steam, and then unquit it. lol

EDIT: I just checked my Steam account, I had boycotted it for the first 8 years. Close to 10, but almost there. IIRC the very first game I really, really wanted to play was CIV III or IV (whichever of those was the first to require Steam) and found it on the shelf in the local Target store. Read the back of the box, saw it required Steam, and put it back. I don't remember the others but this happened a few times before I finally decided the goose was cooked and Steam was indeed going to be a thing.

Without spoiling anything and despite it being a prequel to Half-Life 2, Half-Life Alyx should not be dismissed as irrelevant. It does expand the story quite significantly. There is a reason why Valve recommends playing Half-Life 2 with its expansions first, despite Alyx being a prequel. Half-Life 3 is not an impossibility any more. GOG is my default store, but I have over a thousand games on Steam and I see no reason why you'd want to abandon it. Why on earth would you want to limit yourself to one store and, more importantly, abandon the games you paid for? Buy what you can on GOG, but keep your Steam account. You may still need Steam for GTA 6 or Elder Scrolls 6, or Starfield or whatnot.

Also Source-Based games are all DRM-Free and can run without Steam, so that includes:
Half-Life: Source
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Portal
Maaaaybe Portal 2, I've not checked.

yes i did actually, it was around the time Total War Napoleon released. Somehow it could not interest me, not sure any more. I was young and had probably lots of other 'stuff' on my mind. Total War Napoleon also did not manage to interest me. And since steam was anything but mandatory at the time. And my grasshopper self also did not understand many of the advantages concerning keeping gaming data indestructible, for example... or buying games legal.

i did get back to it on a later point in my life. Another account right up until point i decided giving Napoleon another try and falling into the discovery of this previous account i presumable once configured...

That's life for ya.... Never went back to purchasing Napoleon though.... Sometimes you take the loss.

Quit? I never joined in the first place.

It is a tempting proposition sometimes due to the community features such as curators, walkthoughs, images, and more.

Competition to Steam is important to me, so I try to mainly support GOG and ZoomPlatform, and FireFlower Games occasionally. But I also don't play many games.

Interesting!
What about Left 4 Dead 1 and 2?

Looks like they do need Steam, at least according to PCGamingWiki. Portal 2 also seems to require Steam.

The ones I have listed I have tried myself and PCGamingWiki confirms them to be DRM-Free as well.

I joined Steam because of Half-Life 2 (and the expansions) but around 2012. I loved the story and everything and was on a bit of a "steam fangirling" with great sales and loving HL series... until I realize the ending for Half-Life 2 Episode 2 was not coming like EVER. Without the HL series, Steam doesn't really hold my interest, and since I changed my laptop to a Mac (and MacOS) I installed Steam, saw how crappy it is, and left it there. Of course I also don't game as much: My GOG library consists of two "always installed games" (FTL and Duskers) and then some games that may hold my attention for a while but eventually finish and uninstall (like, maybe 3 per year).

I basically moved on to board games and recently bought everything related to Elder Sign, so I have a couple of months/maybe years of lovecraftian entertainment on my hands (yes, I know of Arkham Horror, Eldritch Horror and AH Card Game... not that interested... well, the card game seems interesting but is a money sink...).

So yeah, I quit Steam without even realizing it... and almost video games altogether o.O

I deleted my Steam account years ago. I don't plan on returning at this point, and every bit of news I hear about them just further solidifies that I made the right decision, in my mind. I am sad there are a lot of games I will never get to play because the publishers insist on being exclusive to Steam, but I knew that was the case when I left and I've already accepted it.

These are all good posts.

I am not sure at the moment. I sometimes feel like i bought things that i didn't even touch (figuratively).
Its amazing what you acquire over time and then, you don't even use it.

DRM is also a concern. Where i halt is when i have to use a 3th party service. It usually doesn't end well.
(Rockstar)

Like i wrote, i am curious how it went for others.

Boardgames. Oh my, i did that heavily when i was young. Always fun as you play with real people in a room.
I should look into that too.

The last games that i played where Little Nightmares (which i like) and Outlast. I am always late to the game it seems.
Games i usually avoid now are sims and strategy games as they consume so much time.

In the end it seems to leave it like it is and to be honest, it is a radical move.

Alyx i haven't played since i didn't have VR. Isn't that also available for non VR?

If having my account closed through lack of use (i.e. never using it), then, yes!...

I would stop buying games altogether rather than open a Steam account.
So I do not qualify for leaving Steam, and probably never will.

I know one, my ex-wife's little brother. He is still on my Steam friends list, and according to it he was last logged in 6124 days ago. So he has been offline for over 16 years.

I don't think he is boycotting Steam or anything, but probably just grew up and stopped playing PC games. That unfortunately happens to some people, they find something else more interesting in their lives, like a family or some shit like that.

While I very rarely, if ever, buy games on Steam, I am not saying I won't. For instance, it might well be I buy e.g. Elden Ring at some point, as I don't believe it would be coming to GOG. But who knows, I am not in a real hurry to get it but I'd like to play it at some point, as it is constantly used as an example of a game done right.

I do use Steam quite often though, mostly to play Team Fortress 2 (a free-to-play online shooter). Did so today too. That damn game just never seems to die even though Valve seems to have half-abandoned it and at some point it seemed they hope it would die already, but nah, it is just too much fun to let it go.

I do also have quite many games on my Steam account that I intend to play some day. Maybe.

I barely ever spent any cash at that store, but I have a few games I got for free or in super cheap bundles so once in a blue moon I fire their client to play something from there. But I wasn't ever really attached to them and probably wouldn't even notice it if it suddenly disappeared.

That said, I have an "official" date for quitting Steam. Their client is on a countdown to stop working on Win7 later this year and I refuse to install any recent Windows crap on my hardware. When I finally complete my jump to Linux I don't think I'll even bother installing Valve's client since I already have enough DRM-free games to last me a couple lifetimes... even if not all of them work in Linux (native or through Wine) just yet.