I have been an avid steam user for years, and as a PC gamer and enthusiast, this has been the One and only application that I have been 100% loyal to like all in… But they updated the terms of use and apparently now, stating that buying is not owning, you just have a license that can be revoked whenever the publisher decides to.

** Several things I have purchased on there have been taken away, and I am considering not using it at all anymore**. First and most egregious thing that has been taken away from me are DLC. I played Destiny 2 for a really long while and after purchasing several DLC, came back to the game to find that stuff that I had planned on finishing later was completely removed from the game but I wasn’t given a refund. I reached out to support and was told that they can totally do this. They can just steal from you, you buy something, they just take it away and remove it from the game entirely, and no refund. So live service on Steam is a hell no for me. There have been numerous other games though that have been taken away as well, one example being Total War battles colon kingdoms, and Tom Clancy’s Ghost recon phantoms.

Just makes me wonder, what’s the point of even using Steam anymore if they can just take whatever you purchase away from you and no refund at all? It’s basically theft. Like, imagine You purchase a PlayStation 5 game and they send the police into your home to retrieve it to make sure that you no longer have it anymore simply because they stop selling it. Absolutely insane how anyone can support this business model

  • BonerMan@ani.socialEnglish
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    17 days ago

    You always bought a license you always buy licenses for digital product’s, even GOG is technically a licens, shure you get a offline installer, but the game in your library is a license.

    A game without Servers is also not doing much nowadays, shire you can install it but most games need a Server connection.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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      17 days ago

      even GOG is technically a licens, shure you get a offline installer

      IMO, that’s a major difference. Like, a crucial and critical difference.

      If a game is yanked from steam, it’s gone. I paid for a license and ended up with absolutely zero.

      If it’s removed from GOG, and I have the installer, then I have the installer. I still have what I paid for, and not a big bucket of fuck you.