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They already have your information, but there's no reason to leave the accounts open. Fill them with garbage and close them.

My biggie this year is Steam. It goes away this time.

They already have your information, but there's no reason to leave the accounts open. Fill them with garbage and close them. My biggie this year is Steam. It goes away this time.

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[–] • 2 pts

Why Steam? Any particular reason?

[–] • 4 pts

The only gaming machine I have right now is a fairly high-power Win7 machine I bought for circuit design work when 6th gen i-cores were the thing, those being the last version of CPU that had drivers for Windows 7.

While I understand that Valve no longer wants to support clients for Win7, their dropping of that support will also make all of the games I purchased no longer work because they tightly integrate them with the DRM-laced client. This includes the games I've purchased that haven't been updated in years.

Since I can't play what I bought or purchase new ones, there's no need to have the system.

This is why we pirate games.

[–] • 3 pts

I have not tried this but it may work for older games: https://github.com/atom0s/Steamless Also, I think I read somewhere that GOG can work as an alternative launcher but only for some games.

[–] • 1 pt

Are you, me? I have a few Steam games I’ve paid for, but I’ve been racking up free deals for ages. And my desktop and laptop are a Win7 and Win8 I can’t afford to have anything fuck up trying to upgrade.

Another reason to sail the seas. 🏴‍☠️

[–] • 1 pt

Some of the games I had in my library seem to work ok without the client, but others won't run without it.

[–] • 2 pts

Fuck steam

[–] • 1 pt

Yes. Nothing like a "You can't use the things you bought because you can't buy more of them" kick in the nuts to make you not want to bother.

[–] • 1 pt

I'm hoping to circumvent the steam ordeal with linux. It's still bullshit that you can't play the old titles with the OS they were released on though.

[–] • 1 pt

I asked that my account be deleted. On December 10th, it will be gone.