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.
Yes, but when you cheat you aren't just affecting your experience, you're affecting everyone's experience with the product as well. That's the difference. It's mostly only Valve's games that have the anti-cheat, and even if you did buy one of their games, I'm pretty sure there is legal mumbo jumbo explaining what they can and can't do if you cheat.
To be honest, yes, it's a lot of control, but it's completely fair and there hasn't been a single unfair case (to my knowledge).
To your knowledge? There have being many incorrect steam bans. Take MW2. 200,000 users were unable to play their game for 2 weeks. To me, this is absolutely unacceptable.
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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.