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Steam now says the ‘game’ you’re buying is really just a license

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Image: The Verge

Valve is now explicitly disclosing that you don’t own the games you buy from its Steam online store. The company has added a note on the payment checkout screen stating that “a purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” as reported earlier by Engadget.

We confirmed the message appears in the Steam desktop app, but we haven’t seen it in the mobile app yet. Some Steam users noticed the disclosure go live earlier this week and posted their findings on Reddit.

Image: Steam

My colleague Sean is not actually buying this yet; he says he has to play Persona 3 first.

Why? Probably, a new law. California has a law going into effect next year that’ll require digital storefronts like Valve’s…

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