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I'm not aware of Steam ever having removed a purchased game from a library.
If you have a reliable source that says otherwise please link it.
Technically they could do that of course.
But it would be bad for their business and have people do more business with gog.com.
Steam gets chosen over gog.com for convenience.
If purchased games disappear that will be even more inconvenient.
edit: I mean "Steam ever having removed a purchased game from a library" in the sense of for no good reason.
Following legal requirements or being dependent on external resources (e.g. game servers) outside the responsibility of Steam are different things and I wouldn't blame Steam for it.
There's a reason for the trust people have in Steam.
And there are plenty of reasons for not having trust in Sony.
What if the publisher decides they no longer want it to be available? Is that a "good reason"? It's outside the responsibility and control of Steam.
Steam removes it from the store. It's still in my library and I can still download it anytime.
That's been my experience.
That's good to know.
Thank you confirming what I was hoping for.
In my book it is.
It's still bad and a reason to strive for the ability to fully own games.
But Steam's fault? Nah.
It's certainly a ways away but Gaben won't live forever. I'm assuming there's a clear succession plan in place and hopefully that everyone lined up are on roughly the same wavelength but... well, there're no guarantees.