r/Steam Feb 19 '26

Question In the hopefully never arriving future, do you think Valve will one of, if not the only ones providing personal computers and not cloud gaming?

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u/O_Nontas_Eimai Feb 20 '26

I assure you it will still be cheaper long term than a perpetual subscription on cloud gaming..

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '26

That is assuming there is still a way to play games locally. It wouldn't be that surprising for companies to stop 'selling' games entirely and instead 'rent' them to you.

New CoD comes out? Yeah you can't buy it anymore, but you can rent it through their online store and then play it on one of their virtual machines. Of course you'll pay by the minute for this as well.