It was not like this back in the '90s. Games you purchased were on disk/disks. You installed the game and played the fully completed game that did not require an online connection. You owned that game.
After the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 things changed. So it has not always been like this.

To everyone here.

I know most of you are fed up, exhausted and disgusted. The key is to never give up and roll over. Once you do this the idiots will have won and we we’ll be permanently screwed. We had already gone through four years of Trump’s Idiocracy. Four more years sucks but you need to keep fighting the good fight. We can get through this!