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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Incorrect. Steam games are licensed to you. If the dev or publisher want to remove the game from Steam, it will still be in your library.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you'd lose that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

there is this old game "Blur", it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It still is, the Single Player is still available if you read the article. They just shut down servers, and that’s on Square Enix.