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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

When you own the game you have the choice whether to back up the game and whether to keep a computer that can run it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Both of those mean you have to own a physical thing. Store services are basically backups for cases when you stop owning a physical thing for a while.