Do I own my steam games

Do I own my steam games

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    no.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you own the memories made along the way 🙂

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you're literally leasing them

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >you're literally leasing them
      I still have the HL2 series on DVD when I bought them on release, I own them.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    no, and that's a good thing

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Yes don't believe what other people tell you, as long as you paid a one time fee for a game and not a recurring subscription you legally own your games, they are a good not a service. The "you don't own your games" thing people are referring to is the fact that when you buy Half Life your not buying the rights to the Half Life franchise and the ability to duplicate and resell it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      if steam shuts down or closes your account you lose all your games

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Steam will never shutdown

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Steam will only ever completely ban an account for doing literally illegal shit. You could go to the forums post Black person and you'd just be forum banned but still have access to your games. If steam shuts down they or the company that sold you the game would have a legal requirement to allow you to somehow play your game. Gebe Newell already stated that if steam ever went down then a patch would be released to allow all games to be playable offline. Steams DRM can already be cracked pretty easily as is and not all games even have it in the first place. Even so, steam will probably never permanently shut down in our lifetime bar some horrible disaster.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Steam will only ever completely ban an account for doing literally illegal shit.
          So what you're saying is, you don't actually own your games? Because in real life, if you legally buy something then you own it. Even if you go back to the store you bought it from and steal a bunch of shit or break their shit, that doesn't mean they can take away the things that you bought.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >get banned for illegal activity on your steam account
            >NOOOOO MY STEAM GAMES THEY'VE BEEN STOLEN FROM ME
            what the frick is your problem? what even are these priorities

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            actually they can depending on item lol

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            If you go to jail for life do you still own your house ?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't know steam shutting down would also instantly wipe my three hard drives including the one not even connected to my computer

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      wrong. Legally, you do not own any digital games. You own a license that entitles you to access the game, a license that can be revoked at any time at the discretion of the platform you bought it on. If steam decides to take action against you for anything they deem fit, say byebye to your library.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        *copy-pastes my steamapps folder*

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    drm-free yes, if not then just download the crack

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No
    Remember, if you can't resell something, you don't own it

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Might be possible in the future, we only need a law for it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      you can sell your account :^)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not without breaking TOS, also not allowed on places like eBay.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          guess what, you're not "allowed" to resell games either.
          And who the frick uses ebay in 2021? there's a dozen sites better suited to selling game assets, both ingame and out.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't own anything, goy.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't even own your physical games. You just hold a license. With physical you own the disk/cart that happens to have a license attached, whereas with digital its tied to an account somewhere.
    Just like you don't own the movies you buy on dvd/bd/vhs/beta. Just the license to play them in specific circumstances. Even if you physically have the data right there, you don't have the legal right to it. When the day of the rope happens, copyright israelites are getting it too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You can resell your physical 'license' which makes it immensely more valuable

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      That's true but a secondary market exists because it's impossible for the right holders to control, not for the lack of trying.
      >one time use CD-keys for access to online multiplayer

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >developer can update your game to replace protag with a rainbow troony or outright delete soundtrack from your """""copy"""""
    lol no

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You only ever partially own digital games. Until you find a drive to place them on and a crack to run them without the Steam client, your games will die with the server in the event it gets shut down.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you own a license tied to your user account.
    unless you make a new account for every purchase, you will find it very hard to take advantage of what you would generally consider as ownership

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    ive never had a CD last as long as my steam games

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    maybe

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No but if steam died tomorrow piracy would explode overnight.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >server goes down
    where did my games I owned go?

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nope. I don't own my tbhra games anymore, steams the exact same.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you own literally nothing.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      this. I can (will) take your fingernails

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Your foreskin belongs to g-d's chosen ones

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >after you die all your stuff will either be inherited be your relatives or the govt
      you cant have shit irl

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care. I'll just pirate them if they ever revoke my access on steam

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't own any games (even the physical ones). You only own a license to play them.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    yeah
    steam revoking access or deleting a game from your library doesn't magically remove it from your hard-drive, it will still be in your steamapps folder, and if you're still worried about them doing that you can just copy the data and put it somewhere else on your computer
    cracks for most steam games are completely trivial (by design) and this is assuming the game even has any additional drm beyond steam itself or steamworks
    there are solutions to retain steamworks/online capability for pirated games
    people that think you don't own your steam games are privacy-minded midwits with a nordvpn subscription but will play stupid if they see the results of a wireshark packet sniff that shows a program isn't suspicious

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Only after you drop the steam emulator files into it's folder.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It's a license to play the games, that can be revoked at valve's discretion: ""the Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services."

    t. EULA reader

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >disk brakes/gets lost
    what now

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      have backups like a sensible person

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        how do i copy a cd with aaa games

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          oh my sweet summer child

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            i was born in the third week of may

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            reddit

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Ganker

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You own nothing.
    Are you happy?

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No. You cannot own a digitial product if it is bound by DRM (such as having to be logged into an online account to play).
    By contrast, you do own GOG games.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You will own nothing and be happy goy

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't own your home, you lease it from the goverment, as soon as you stop paying taxes they'll come
    >but muh right to defend
    good luck defending yourself against a whole swat squad with orders to follow and nothing to lose

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No but at least 99.9% of the time you can be sure that those games will stay in your library for at least the next 20 years. Console gays just have shit yanked out of their libraries when the delist hammer falls

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's not even "delist", every console has a brand new incompatible store, that if you're insanely lucky, has a "way to transfer the existing games".

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    you dont own games, only physical or digital copies you lawlets

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    prove him wrong

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I dont listen to anyone with that hairline

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    You don't own any games
    Even with DRM free games, you have to sign a license agreement before installing it

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