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I have been wondering the same thing about Steam, actually. Do you think we will be seeing a Steam "scandal" like that in the future, where a game suddenly becomes unavailable and you lose access to it for one reason or another? So far Valve has been able to keep things straight with everyone to make it almost feel like you owned the games, but it's just a licence to play them in the end.

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It is because of this licensing arrangement with Steam that I have not purchased a single game from them where I did not get at least a 75% discount off the normal sales price. I don't care if I have to wait, like I did when I finally purchased a game last week for 75% off after waiting a year for a sale, but since I don't own a copy (physical, transferable & with DRM) of the game, I don't see the point of paying full price to Steam or any other games provider.

Funny, I have the exact same behavior towards Steam. And on the other hand, I fully embrace the Humble Bundle and GOG as they provide you with executables without DRMs - I just wish they would expand in more recent games (GOG especially).

Yeah, I never buy new games on Steam. Most of my purchases are < $5 and they are all < $10

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