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[-] Mondez@lemdro.id 8 points 3 days ago

Fairly sure steam has sufficient access to your system to do just that to the games it installed.

[-] Ghoelian@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Even if they can't, the publisher can always just push an update that makes it unplayable.

I'm pretty sure they can require an update before launching, and you have to be online every once in a while to play games on steam at all.

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