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Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Which is why you don't have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

A Steam key Valve didn't get a cut from, btw.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So all those files on the disc I had to install were for something else then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game using Steam, and not an actual game you own.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So it's anti consumer bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That is done because of a game publisher, not steam.