I’m a big fan of Steam, but gog.com also exists, and people should always try to figure out how to preserve copies of their games and media in a self-hosted way wherever possible.
I know with some games it’s not possible because of requiring signons, etc, but even those sometimes get cracked (people run their own WoW servers, etc).
I always download and/or sideload everything I can. My e-books, my music, and my games.
I have been negligent about shows and movies because once I watch them I tend to not watch them again. But, I have friends with extensive video libraries that they built up over the years.
It’s harder now because storage is so fucking expensive. But don’t accept the default mode that your shit has to live in the cloud. The cloud is just somebody else’s storage.
I didn’t know it was called sideloading, I’ve been doing it for decades. Loaded my kids Kindle up with tons of books, he has an mp3 player I dumped a rip of all my favorited songs and ones he really likes, roughly 5,000 songs so far. My Plex is loaded up with newest movies immediately. We use stremio for tv series mostly.
I’m going to make a guide for how to get all this stuff for himself soon, no reason it needs to die with me. The legend will continue.
We’ve got a family steam group we all share games, but I do pirate some and download my purchases from GOG. I even go back and buy games after pirating them, Split Fiction was a great couch game we beat this summer and the developers deserved that money. Shit was smooth and fantastic.
I’m a big fan of Steam, but gog.com also exists, and people should always try to figure out how to preserve copies of their games and media in a self-hosted way wherever possible.
I know with some games it’s not possible because of requiring signons, etc, but even those sometimes get cracked (people run their own WoW servers, etc).
I always download and/or sideload everything I can. My e-books, my music, and my games.
I have been negligent about shows and movies because once I watch them I tend to not watch them again. But, I have friends with extensive video libraries that they built up over the years.
It’s harder now because storage is so fucking expensive. But don’t accept the default mode that your shit has to live in the cloud. The cloud is just somebody else’s storage.
With the direction things are going, it looks like GoG may get bought by someone else or just go bankrupt, sadly.
I buy GoG over Steam without exception, but sadly it seems most gamers are not that way.
I didn’t know it was called sideloading, I’ve been doing it for decades. Loaded my kids Kindle up with tons of books, he has an mp3 player I dumped a rip of all my favorited songs and ones he really likes, roughly 5,000 songs so far. My Plex is loaded up with newest movies immediately. We use stremio for tv series mostly.
I’m going to make a guide for how to get all this stuff for himself soon, no reason it needs to die with me. The legend will continue.
We’ve got a family steam group we all share games, but I do pirate some and download my purchases from GOG. I even go back and buy games after pirating them, Split Fiction was a great couch game we beat this summer and the developers deserved that money. Shit was smooth and fantastic.