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

[BraLoD]

Chrkeller said:

BraLoD said:

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?  

I'm not, you are. I'm making actual statements.

Sony could only brick my PS5 if I allowed that update to go through. And if they even released an update like that, they would be commiting a crime.

The thing is, no company like Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sega, Ubisoft, Konami, etc could ever take the vast majority of my games away from me.

Valve could take your from you. Within their rights.

The likelyhood of it happening is meaningless, the fact you are under that possibility, even hypothetical, and I'm not, is what defines onwership to me, like any other product, someone would need to commit a crime against me for it to happen, or a natural disaster, or Godzilla not liking my house as you said.

Valve is literally selling you licenses within their entire right to revoke when needed, you are complying to exactly that when you are renting games in their service.

It would be silly if I said I expect it to happen, it's not silly to state it could in fact happen, meanwhile Godzilla not liking my house would be silly, it looks so good, we could even play my games together there instead.