>>716068431Before Steam became so ubiquitous, games from major publishers were using worse and worse DRM.
Games with overly invasive DRM, games with limited installs, games with one-time use licenses, games with their own launchers and account systems, etc.
Compared to that Steam is much more benign.
>Also you don't own your Steam games, they'll be gone one dayUnless I just download them, break the DRM and just don't tell Steam where they are, something which is much more secure than hoping that the one disc I have will remain readable in perpetuity.