Do you own concord on steam? Check again you can probably download the client anyway. I don’t have it, but I remember for a brief time people were playing with community servers after it got taken down.

As far as my account goes, even when publishers remove games, I still have access to my files.

This is crucial for community led projects that revive game servers, like The Crew, Hawken or Blacklight Retribution.

Sony is remotely deleting stuff (or more accurately, threatening to do so)

Just to clarify: I still prefer buying on GOG but the catalog there is slimmer. Steam so far has been more aligned with their users’ rights.

The fact that a company loses a license to something in a game disallows them to keep selling them, not stealing them back from their customers.