It's a licensing model, not a rental model. You're not paying anybody a monthly fee to play, you have all the files locally, and the threshold for revoking your

It's a licensing model, not a rental model. You're not paying anybody a monthly fee to play, you have all the files locally, and the threshold for revoking your license or otherwise losing access to a title is extremely high. Even games with components that have expired licenses are kept on the account, your access is never really revoked -- even a VAC ban won't lose you your library. You can't mod a Stadia game...