> Steam is a rent model too, but nobody seems to mind. A long time ago, there was an official statement to the effect of "if steam goes down, we'll release a p

> Steam is a rent model too, but nobody seems to mind. A long time ago, there was an official statement to the effect of "if steam goes down, we'll release a patch to unlock your games" or something to that effect. I think that was before third parties could even sell on Steam. Could also be apocryphal, or photoshopped emails and screencaps and the like. It almost certainly doesn't hold true today. But at the very least, you can download your steam games today, and if it shuts down at some point in the future, you can modify or crack those local files and executables to be playable; multiplayer systems notwithstanding. There's a path forward. With Stadia games, there is nothing without original publisher or developer intervention.