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Just because this level of cringey fanboying should never be tolerated, here is a hurtful fact: Valve has argued in court that they are a subscription service and you do not in fact own any game in your library. https://hothardware.com/news/valve-loses-french-court-battle
Yup, since early 00s, Valve has switched from selling digital copies of games to selling "limited perpetual licenses" of games.