What if... Steam discontinues - What would you lose?

What would you lose?

More than one addiction.

ushios death

My sanity. Steam = no games/distractions = no SteamGifts = losing only community I communicate with outside of work.

Back to League of Legends? xd

not very probable, worst case IMHO: they get bought by MS, Amazon, Facebook etc.

Should it happen, we wouldn't lose anything, because we didn't own anything in the first place :3
And that's the sad truth about digital distribution, the only things we own are licenses which allow us to download and play the attached games, until the copyright holders decide we can't anymore, for whatever reason they might deem valid.

i won't lose anything.
in fact, i will save money and start pirating again.

I would be totally, thoroughly screwed if Steam just stopped existing one day. All the great games in my library that I haven't played yet would be gone. Also no Steam games = no BLAEO. Dreadful.

I keep all my games installed in case internet ever goes out, so I wouldn't really lose anything
but I get the idea, and I'd lose my mind if I lost all of my games

Everything in life is transient.
I'd just move my transient ass over to GOG. ;)

I will just play my Blizzard games. =s

Go Overwatch + Hearthstone!

I would lose a bunch, yes. But I have significant pieces of my collection on other platforms and DRM-free backed up on various drives. So I certainly would not be without games to play. But it would suck, yes.

My backlog would be gone... freedom, awful freedom.

do you own your games on Steam?

While I own my games, they also own me. Without me, my games are nothing and without my games, I have nothing. How2philos??

chances to happen in next 5 years, NEVER

Steam is not going to do anything about it if they went under. I think there an article online point out the Steam UA's. That why GOG is gaining more users due to paranoid users :)

Once GabeN is gone anything is possible. (except HL3)
I'd miss my favourite games.

My online friends :_(