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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I will never, ever, place a large library of digital media into someone else's complete control. If Steam decides you did 'something wrong' and they block your account, all of your games are gone.
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This statement caused me to question my relationship with Valve and Steam. The answer I came up with is: so what?
I buy a lot of computer/console games. I play all of them, eventually. When I'm done with a game I'm done with it. Out of the hundreds of games I've bought I've gone back and replayed fewer than a dozen. Replay is not a value to me.
I'm not a fan of the used games market. While I do firmly believe in the rights afforded by the first-sale doctrine those are rights I choose not to exercise. Creators don't get paid for secondhand sales. Resale is also not a value to me.
So what if I lose my Steam library? I've already obtained whatever value from it that I want so losing it would be little more than an inconvenience.