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[โ€“] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Steam has always had a backup option. GOG is well known and loved because of its backup option. Sony does not have any such backup option besides physical media. Same with Nintendo and Xbox.

And as Ubisoft showed with The Crew, even your physical media can be nuked remotely if it requires checking on a server to verify anything. It's no guarantee of anything.

But steam would require you to go online to install your backups. Unless you have DRM free install files, you're vulnerable. That includes physical media that has DRM