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With Google Stadia you can still purchase the game and play it forever.

by Axsuul 6y ago

Judgmentality 6y ago
This is roughly equivalent to DRM - you can play it so long as the service is available, but after that you lose it forever and are not getting a refund. So you aren't actually purchasing the game, you're renting the ability to use it so long as Stadia is operational.
iamjake648 6y ago
"Forever" - so until Google kills it in a year or two.
- hombre_fatal 6y ago
  Well, that's how console gaming and most e-shops work. You get to play until the hardware generation phases out.
  - iamjake648 6y ago
    Which is why so many in the gaming community prefer to buy physical games as opposed to digital downloads. At least with digital downloads you can quick download all of your purchases before a store closes down. With gaming streaming that shit's gone forever.
    - ganoushoreilly 6y ago
      The real problem with the Physical vs Digital divide these days is that a lot of content is cloud based. So even with standalone discs, there's a reliance on online services to succeed / gain content. It's by design. MS made it clear 8 years ago that they wanted Digital and to move on from Physical media. It's an inevitability, the question is how can we migrate licenses from platforms. I like how movies are handled with MoviesAnywhere.
      - ulucs 6y ago
        As long as you can access the games, you can get around the server closures. There are active online communities for PSP Monster Hunter and DS Pokemon games even though the online services shut down years ago.
        ganoushoreilly 6y ago
        I'm more concerned where the cloud is being used to render and manage content. Something like no mans sky, with the entire world existing on servers. Without it's going to be a long arduous reversing project to get it usable.
  - andoriyu 6y ago
    Except while I have my PS3 with Resistance installed I can play Resistance as much as I want. Sony is not going to come to my house and take it away. Google be like "we decided to close it down, bye"
  - IdiocyInAction 6y ago
    Google is particularly well known for killing off their less profitable services though.
r00fus 6y ago
s/purchase/perpetually license/

With Google Stadia you can still purchase the game and play it forever.

by Axsuul 6y ago

With Google Stadia you can still purchase the game and play it forever.

This is roughly equivalent to DRM - you can play it so long as the service is available, but after that you lose it forever and are not getting a refund. So you aren't actually purchasing the game, you're renting the ability to use it so long as Stadia is operational.

iamjake648 6y ago

"Forever" - so until Google kills it in a year or two.

hombre_fatal 6y ago
Well, that's how console gaming and most e-shops work. You get to play until the hardware generation phases out.
- iamjake648 6y ago
  Which is why so many in the gaming community prefer to buy physical games as opposed to digital downloads. At least with digital downloads you can quick download all of your purchases before a store closes down. With gaming streaming that shit's gone forever.
  - ganoushoreilly 6y ago
    The real problem with the Physical vs Digital divide these days is that a lot of content is cloud based. So even with standalone discs, there's a reliance on online services to succeed / gain content. It's by design. MS made it clear 8 years ago that they wanted Digital and to move on from Physical media. It's an inevitability, the question is how can we migrate licenses from platforms. I like how movies are handled with MoviesAnywhere.
    - ulucs 6y ago
      As long as you can access the games, you can get around the server closures. There are active online communities for PSP Monster Hunter and DS Pokemon games even though the online services shut down years ago.
      - ganoushoreilly 6y ago
        I'm more concerned where the cloud is being used to render and manage content. Something like no mans sky, with the entire world existing on servers. Without it's going to be a long arduous reversing project to get it usable.
- andoriyu 6y ago
  Except while I have my PS3 with Resistance installed I can play Resistance as much as I want. Sony is not going to come to my house and take it away. Google be like "we decided to close it down, bye"
- IdiocyInAction 6y ago
  Google is particularly well known for killing off their less profitable services though.

r00fus 6y ago

s/purchase/perpetually license/