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

[Chrkeller]

HoloDust said:

Chrkeller said:

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.  

Yeah, that's why I don't worry about Steam going under.

Still, I'd say that loosing your account is more likely than loosing your physical games, and why pretty much only GOG bought games are digitally owned.

My biggest concern is someone hacking my Steam account and stealing my downloads via email change.  That I think is a legit concern.  It is shocking how easy it is to change email address linked to Steam, then change password.  I changed one of my old accounts to my daughter's email, it wasn't as hard as I think it should have been.