Can digital games be removed from your library? PSN/Steam/EShop?

[Jumpin]

I’ve lost plenty of games on misplacement (kids misplacing stuff or losing it during a loan or move) and from degradation - sometimes scratching caused by the console itself, or corrosion caused by humidity. I’d be surprised if any of my old NES games still worked - they barely worked 30+ years ago.

I’ve yet to lose a single digital purchase be it games, films, or music. And I think the future is far more promising. Hypotheticals like “Companies can take your games away!” don’t really concern me because that would open them up to lawsuits. I’m much more concerned with streaming services removing my favourite films.

Actually, that’s not entirely true, I did lose my old Minecraft account. I tried logging into it, and apparently the whole infrastructure as removed - I’m guessing a long time ago around the time of the Microsoft purchase.

So, aside from Minecraft (which was kind of a ghetto distribution that cost me like 5-7 USD), nothing.