I remember when they said "players should get used to not owning their games".

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It's not Steam's decision to make. The statement you're referring to is just Steam clearly stating a decision made by the game publishers. Even if Steam didn't highlight it, it would still exist, as you would see if you read the games' license terms before paying.

Ubisoft is a game publisher. They actually make the decision that you don't own the games you pay for.

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I've never had Steam entirely revoke a game from my library that I paid for though.

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It's steam's/valve's decision for their own games, and they have the exact same policy.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

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Practically all game publishers do. Sadly, it's the industry standard.

But the complaint was about Steam, not Valve.

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It happens every few years when a publisher gets petty:

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Mellow_Online1 Officer 20 Sep, 2017 @ 1:55pm
Update: Valve has stepped in and keys have been reinstated, previous owners of the game should now have it in their library

Seems like the developer was dumb and steam did everything right.....?

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I don't get the downvotes. You're right, everything you "own" in steam is through a license. People just don't like to admit that we're willing to let that one slide for convenience.

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Gamers are not always the most unfrozen pogos of the box.

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Or as I like to say, two buns short of a hamburger

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I may be misremembering but don't some steam games have no drm? KSP1 and Ultrakill come to mind, are they still on a licence like games with drm?

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You are right - https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games_on_Steam.

My main arguement though was that it's not like your steam library is yours without restrictions. You're agreeing to Steams terms and services and there are lots of ways they can prevent you from playing (most) games you "own".

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Don't bother reading the EULA for all commercial software then. You don't actually own anything you purchase.

Unless you have the code there is no freedom and it is all an illusion.

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the downvotes are because it's borderline misinformation:

whether a game comes with DRM or not has nothing to do with steam, and everything to do woth the publisher.

plenty of games on steam are completely DRM free!

(...but the majority does have DRM, which, again, is on the publisher, not steam)

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Yea, but the whole notion that Steam just lets developers do this, sometimes repeatedly...

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What are you talking about? If the developer says XYZ are stolen/bla keys of course steam has to do that? Stop trying to put blame on steam here, they did everything right. First help the developer and then go back once it was clear they were doing bullshit. Not saying steam is a saint, but holy fuck are they the best of all of them by a long shot.

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Yeah, that's the point I and the person above were stating.

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I was pretty sure Steam was getting dunked on because you don't actually own the games according to the contract. I was just pointing out this is also true of any commercial piece of software.

For example, you go to GameStop and buy a physical copy of your favorite game. When you install it he EULA makes it clear you don't actually own the product, just a license.

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True but if I own the .exe or physical disk, it's going to be a lot harder to stop me playing the game than if I'm accessing it through a platform.

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That is a good point.

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I remember when they said "players should get used to not owning their games".