The Culling 2, (The first) game forcibly removed from all accounts?

A sad reminder that we don't actually own our games.

It happened before, I remember seeing this a few years ago

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/12/30/steam-removes-game-order-of-war-challenge-from-user-libraries/
https://store.steampowered.com/news/11428/

On the downside this is a travesty exposing the myth of ownership in a digital society for what it is. You don't own anything that others can take away from you without asking first. The value of a thing you own is not the same as the value you bought it for, so forcing a refund is straight up "stealing" value from anyone who actually wanted to keep it - for whatever reason. They could certainly have offered free refunds with a streamlined process, but to force it on people? Hell no.

Unless the game was literally a virus or mining bitcoin without telling you or something... but if it was we would have heard about it.

On the upside this was apparently a really shitty game that was pretty universally panned and removing it from the store was probably a net positive for humanity. And people did get a refund for it, so at least they're not out the money. The only real loss here is faith in humanity and trust in digital ownership, as well as a reminder to back up your steam games (many, maybe even most, can be played without steam at all if you do back them up.)

Which I guess is a good thing, because trusting it is what made things like this possible in the first place.

And nothing of value was lost.