If you had a problem on Steam recently, where you didn’t appear to own some of the games you’d spent hundreds of rands on, it wasn’t just you – Steam made a mistake. But it’s totally fine, because they fixed it.
We’ve fixed an issue where the Steam client wasn’t displaying ownership correctly for some games.
You may need to restart your Steam client for the changes to take effect. Apologies for the disruption!
— Steam (@Steam) August 5, 2020
You’d know if you were affected by this glitch if you went to your library and, instead of being able to play the game you’ve owned for years, you were prompted to purchase it. This included little, inexpensive games, like Red Dead Redemption 2, and also affected DLC and other purchases.
Some of you, reluctant to embrace the digital future, may use this news as a pointy-finger SEE WHAT CAN HAPPEN moment, but at least this sort of thing can be tracked and fixed (in this case, it only took a couple of hours). Nobody’s coming over to your house to give you a new disc when, through a series of unfortunate events involving a shameful cat, for instance, it becomes unusable.
I guess you could buy everything twice, just to be super-safe.
Via Kotaku.