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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But you can truly own steam games. It's up to the developer whether to enable DRM. You can distribute a game through steam and it can still be launchable without steam running. Which means you can also save it to whatever backup medium you like.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not talking about DRM, but about Steam's terms of service. Technically you only purchase a license to play the game, which can be taken away by Valve at any time. You don't really own your copy of the game, as you would with physical media.