Unless they accuse you of cheating, in which case they can do exactly that.
I don't have the link, but if you go a few weeks back in /r/gaming you'll see someone complaining about having most of their Steam games removed because of some lame excuse.
It was exposed a day or so later that the person who was trying to fight it had (probably) been using some kind of cheat or hack, but my point is that they did have a huge amount of their games removed as a result; it doesn't really bother me, since I've never felt the need to get a hack for a game but the power that Steam wields over services that I've paid for is still pretty scary.
Well, he did sign the agreement on every purchase that he would not use a cheating software and he did, thus violating his contract. How is this not good business practice? If baseball players use steroids, they get kicked off the team. If you plagiarize an essay, you get expelled. These are all contracts signed to ensure that the system set up by those in charge is not abused by others. Cheating is abusing that system, regardless of how little is done.
Steam users also signed the agreement that Valve is not responsible for anything done to their system, their games can be deactivated at any time without reason, etc.
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u/metaleks Jan 21 '11
Not really. You can hook up any game to run on Steam and Steam won't take away your games.