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Valve has a good track record, and you’ve never owned a game in your life. They’ve always been a license, with few exceptions. Even physical media.
The difference being that I can resell a physical media, even at a profit if there's enough demand for it, and to most people that's the definition of ownership.
Defining ownership as "can I sell this" is ridiculous
If you can't dispose of it by selling it to someone else, your don't own it. Notice how even DRM free games are just the purchase of a license and the distributor can revoke your right to use that license? Yeah, do you don't own DRM free games either.
Indeed but being able to dispose of something by selling it does not automatically means you owned it
Unless you're acting as a proxy for the owner, yes it does.
If you buy something out of some guy's trunk in a parking lot, it does not mean that guy owned it before selling it to you.
If that's the definition of ownership we're going with, does the fact that I can sell my steam account mean I do actually own every game on it regardless of DRM? Also, does a lack of a demand for a game degrade your ownership?
You can't though (not by following the terms you agreed to) and Valve can ban you or remove your right to use the license you paid for whenever they want.
Mostly yes, especially if you're a big AAA publisher, so your game won't get buried under cheap shovelware and the latest AAA slop. Also don't forget that Steam barely does any moderation, especially once you become a power user, so hate groups will buy your game, leave a negative review, then refund it, because a YouTuber named Prof. Chud called it anti-white and anti-male...