> you cant play them when steam or producer decides to shut them down.
Doesn't Steam actually let people keep a game in their Steam library even if the publisher takes down the store page for the game?
Doesn't Steam actually let people keep a game in their Steam library even if the publisher takes down the store page for the game?
Most games these days don't have a self-hostable dedicated server.
In case of Steam/Valve specifically it happened a while ago with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Valve replaced it with Counter-Strike 2, and while GO's client is still usable, some of its online components are not.
Another point is that Steam DRM is a) optional b) unlike always online GaaS trivial to circumvent