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As someone who values the best Steam games pretty much as I appreciate oxygen ... “The Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content ...

Steam now warns players that they are only buying a license to play a game when checking out. In an update to the checkout process of the popular digital storefront, a message now appears reading, “A ...

Steam has begun making clear that you're buying a license to play a game, as opposed to actually owning the game. That's a key distinction and the change in verbiage at the checkout screen is ...

Steam, for starters, will now blatantly state that what you’re purchasing at the time of checkout is actually the license to your game, and not the entity itself as you would have if you had bought ...

Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam ... that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported ...

Steam now includes an up front warning to customers that they’re buying a license, not a game ahead of a Californian law going into effect in 2025. The change to Steam comes after California governor ...

Just a few hours after we reported on Steam’s new message reminding users that when they buy a game, they’re only purchasing a license, Good Old Games (GOG), a digital store known for its DRM-free ...

Steam now includes an up front warning to customers that they’re buying a license, not a game ahead of a Californian law going into effect in 2025. The change to Steam comes after California ...

Editor's take: Steam has become one of the first companies to admit that you do not own the games you buy ... "A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam." ...