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embedding-shapetoday at 11:50 AM2 repliesview on HN

Sure, I agree with all of those things, but the fact still stands, Steam is actively lying to customers as the store pages say "Buy" and "Purchase", not "Rent" or "Lease", which are more accurate. You don't actually own the product.

Don't get me wrong, as mentioned, I use Steam and like Steam/Valve, but that move is a bit shitty regardless.


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wtetznertoday at 3:19 PM

When I check out on Steam it displays this text to me:

> A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam.

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bbddgtoday at 1:00 PM

I think it would be extremely confusing for customers if the steam “Buy” button was renamed to “Rent” or “Lease”.

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