valve steam question

[burningforce]

just a question for people who use the program and download games using "steam". if you buy a game, what happens in the event steam(valve) goes offline forever? I tried asking through support on steampowered website, but I got some generic repsonse.

I just do not want to buy a $50 game and have that money wasted in the future if the steam servers went offline for good. i know it will be a long time before that happens, but in this day and age you never know what will happen

[Nghtmr9999]

You can make a hard copy backup to a Hard Drive.

In the unlikely event Valve does go under, I believe they would revert Steam to a permanent off-line mode. I wouldn't worry about it though, Steam is like the iTunes of the game world. If Valve goes out of business, I am sure there are other companies willing to step in and buy the service.

[ollee]

if valve goes under, the entire world economy will be going under and playing games will be the least of your worries beings as internet companies will be dead...and if you have enough money that you wouldnt be worried about a collapsing world economy then you wouldnt need to worry about losing the games anyways...