A New Chapter for The Fun Pimps and 7 Days to Die

[theFlu]

So technically I still do own the games but can't play them.

You have some issues there, but they're all "technical" in nature.
- Are the floppies even readable after decades
- You don't have the HW to read them
- You don't have the old HW to run the correct SW that would run the games properly
- They'd fail to run properly on new HW / SW ( => need emulators)

But no-one has flicked a switch that will make them unplayable, which is the fear with "live service" or any other form of online DRM. If I buy a physical copy and destroy it myself, I wouldn't be mad at the company. If time deletes the disk, same deal.

Will the people who bought it from HB still be able to play and those from steam not?

Depends on all kinds of things.. steam allows for license checks and connectivity features; when you lose those, a game may fail. If you have a DRM-free local copy, no-one can disable it; I don't think Humble Bundle guarantees any DRM-free-ness thou, so I don't know if that applies to them.

And like Riamus there, I don't think steam will disappear anytime soon; but I wouldn't put it past the EU to ban them before 2030 ... so other restrictions may apply

 

[Prisma501]

Time for another cutoff to a thread of its own.