They still bring up a good point that you don’t necessarily own the games you buy on Steam.
Steam could “pull an Apple” and remotely delete games from the Steam library for licensing reasons or something similar.
The thing I do like though is that the hardware is not locked, it’s somewhat repairable meaning they can’t lock us in the Steam ecosystem even if management changes and wants Steam to become the Apple of gaming.
They still bring up a good point that you don’t necessarily own the games you buy on Steam.
Steam could “pull an Apple” and remotely delete games from the Steam library for licensing reasons or something similar.
The thing I do like though is that the hardware is not locked, it’s somewhat repairable meaning they can’t lock us in the Steam ecosystem even if management changes and wants Steam to become the Apple of gaming.
Yeah, every store everywhere has that same conundrum.
If you really wanted to “own” the game, then pirate it and keep a copy on a NAS somewhere.
But at that point we’re just arguing semantics.
That’s the case for nearly every storefront. Besides, there’s a lot of games on Steam that actually are DRM-free, it’s just not advertised.