DaveyDoomsday, on 18 March 2013 - 02:55 PM, said:
Steam has pretty awesome customer support and they'd usually never ban you unless you deserved it. However, yes, technically you don't actually own anything you own on Steam. If Steam goes away so do all your games. But they have said in several interviews that even in the unlikely event that Steam shuts down they will find a way to offload all customer licenses to them so they can keep games.
I really wouldn't trust what they say, at least if you use EA as a reference. Maybe Steam is not that evil, but you can't really anticipate what decision may be taken under cooperativism. Who predicted Google would just fill Youtube with ads and tyrannically shut down content?
LkMax, on 18 March 2013 - 03:39 PM, said:
If someone from hollywood went to your house and picked a DVD from you and told you something like "You bought the license to see that movie, but you don't own it, so you have no rights to that copy" wouldn't you tell that person to screw himself?
I suppose that's the problem most people have with DRM. You don't want someone to have the power to take away something you brought (despite the dependence of a loose Internet connection).