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Originally Posted by ratinox
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.
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That is one way to look at it.
You play a game once, and then don't care what happens to it. I play some games on and off for 15 years before I decide that it's my last playthrough, just as I reread books.
So, after your first playthrough, it doesn't matter if you lose the game. After my first playthrough, there could potentially be many more, so I don't want to lose the game. Two years ago I decided to replay all of my old games once more before shelving them (probably) forever, and some of them were as old a 1994-1995. So I can see myself doing a Witcher 3 run in 2035.