What does it even mean to “own” a video game?

[Chrkeller]

BraLoD said:

Chrkeller said:

If Godzilla destroyed your house and broke all your physical games, how many would work?  

I know my comment sounds cheeky, but I stand by it.  The odds of Steam going anywhere, in my lifetime, is roughly the same as Godzilla destroying your game collection.  

We should ignore possible and talk about probable.  Steam isn't going anywhere.  

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I honestly think the odds of you losing your game collection is higher than Steam shutting down via fire, being robbed, tornado, etc.  

That would require an external factor not related to any of my games, unlike the case of Steam.

So yeah, quite cheeky, it points out the fragility of it quite a lot, as Valve literally could ruin your games meanwhile no game company in the world could ruin mine.

Lol, if you say so.  I mean sure, Steam could, in theory, drop their core business that is generation $17,000,000,000 a year, with 75% market share, in a growing industry.  I guess Apple could just close up shop too?  Hey, what if Jensen decides to shut down Nvidia today?!!?? 

OMG, what if Sony releases an update that bricks all ps5 units and they walk away from gaming????!!!???

come on man, you do realize how silly you are being, yeah?