For example; GOG games - what happens if they were to shutdown their busieness. How would you archive these games if you had to?
For example; GOG games - what happens if they were to shutdown their busieness. How would you archive these games if you had to?
With GOG, I just put the installers onto a thumbdrive.
With Steam, I was burning discs using its offline backup tool, but I haven’t had a disc drive in my PC for years now. IDK if those can be backed up into a thumbdrive these days… It only allowed CD/DVD images to be created the last time I ever used it.
Tons of my games were owned physically before Steam existed though. Those I just keep in their boxes in my closet/storage bins.
I hope you’re powering up that thumb drive every few weeks. Flash memory will lose charge if left unpowered for too long, corrupting your data.
I usually just leave it in the computer until I need to take it somewhere.