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Steam now tells gamers up front that they're buying a license, not a game
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It is usually also followed by "but I can download my installers and then I can have them whenever I like" as if it's a sane idea to store terabytes of offline installers for the day that GOG goes out of business.
I mean, I also have terabytes of offline installers for the day that Steam or GOG go down. On other people's computers. In a, uh, distributed distribution system.