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		davemp on June 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stadia Founder's Edition People (mostly) already don't physically own games on PC. Steam can in theory shut right down and most people's games would just be gone.

blibble on June 7, 2019 [–]

the games would be patched to ignore the steam check, or the steam API emulated to bypass it entirely

and since most games use the same steam stub this would be a pretty easy thing to do

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