Steam sorta normalized the whole "You don't own your games" but made it absolutely easy to access and download everything. It just stemmed from there all the way down. I can see in the future, if steam was to crash, a lot of people would lose access to their games with no way to get it again, short of having a server with all the backups on the ready.<br>If another world war breaks out, chances are, a lot of the infrastructure that allows Steam to operate and deliver games as it does, will fail completely.<br>The other big problem is that, there is no good 'medium' to store all the games these days. A lot of stuff comes in packages of 50GB+ in size, and there's no easy way to store it like it used to be back in DVD/CD-Rom era. Either you have a ton of HDD's and a hot-swap deck, or you're out of luck.