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

[BraLoD]

Chrkeller said:

BraLoD said:

Sure, there is no need to worry about it right now. Valve is doing great and its in their best interest to keep doing exactly that.

Actually, even in the event is somehow goes under they could actually just allow anyone to run the games locally without the need of their client to work, it doesn't necessarily mean games would always just become unplayable, though we should really expect the worse outcome from money driven companies rather than the good one.

Valve is a privately owned company tho, it's an easy as someone willing to change it completely when Gabe is not there anymore for it to go terribly wrong, tho. We are seeing Epic right now letting go of 1000 people even when they have some of the most successful games ever. Despite all this success they started wasting a lot of money and losing players, and bad things are already happening. That's also a giant privately owned company, and literally anything could happen.

My theory, if Valve did go under or whatever, the PC community would hack/mod/reverse engineer the client service in a month, and we would carry on.  

As long as something illegal is upon the table then there is really nothing to worry about either, only electricity shortage or lack of access could ruin gaming then.