Quote Originally Posted by Tassadar View Post
I know Steam isn't cloud gaming, but in terms of having a reliable acces to a game steam puts you at risk because if you lose your account in steam you lose tons of games, physical copies are the safest and onlive is arguably just taking the idea of steam one step further.
It's not really any more dangerous than physical copies. If you can't connect to the publisher's website to verify your game, you can't play the physical copy. If you want reliable access, pirate everything.