Metro
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I paid like $45 (in 1990's currency) for Space Quest 4. It's 'worth' about $1 today (and that's even assuming I had bothered to keep the CDs which I didn't). Again, if your hard on extends to 'owning' a copy of a video game, more power to you. But it's hardly the same argument as to ownership of a house or car or even second hand computer hardware.It mostly comes down to how much of a hard on you have for your games being DRM free.
Or another way to read that is, it mostly comes down to: when you pay for a game, do you want to own it or do you want to rent it? If you want to own it, buy it on GOG, if you want to pay for a revocable license to play it, then go with Steam.
And the whole notion of Steam's license being 'revocable' is purely theoretical at this point since the only instance Valve has ever yanked keys is when people buy them off of grey-market websites.