[HurrdurrHodor]

I'm kind of happy that this is happening. Whatever the legal situation may be this is just wrong and it needs to be fixed.

On steam you don't buy games anymore you only buy the right to play them so you cannot resell them. You are effectively buying a service.

Now in this case you are buying a device that does not work without the service and you don't have a right to the service?

No, this does not make sense.