There comes a point in a lot of knowledgeable Steam consumers’ lives where they question what would occur if their account was canceled or taken, or maybe they simply stopped breathing. It’s frightening to consider the number of video games in your stockpile will never ever get played; scarier, still, to think of how you do not, in many genuine senses of the word, own any of them.

Now Valve, apparently working to adhere to a brand-new California law targeting “false advertising” of “digital goods,” has actually included language to its checkout page to validate that thinking. “A purchase of a digital product grants a license for the product on Steam,” the Steam cart now informs its consumers, with a link to the Steam Subscriber Agreement even more listed below.

California’s AB2426 law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Sept. 26, omits subscription-only services, complimentary video games, and digital products that use “permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet.” Otherwise, sellers of digital products can not utilize the terms “buy, purchase,” or associated terms that would “confer an unrestricted ownership interest in the digital good.” And they should discuss, notably, in plain language, that “the digital good is a license” and link to terms.