For me the answer is 847 USD over 14 years …

  • piskertariot
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    29 days ago

    Steam Offline mode is your best friend for archiving games forever.

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        27 days ago

        Generic stream emulators already exist and is how a vast number of games are “cracked”

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          27 days ago

          Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.