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> You will own nothing, everything you do is surveilled on which means zero privacy, pay that monthly subscription fee (which can change at any time) With mine
by robonerd 4y ago
> You will own nothing, everything you do is surveilled on which means zero privacy, pay that monthly subscription fee (which can change at any time)
With minecraft it's worse than that; a game I 'bought' years ago from another company, since acquired, can now be taken from me by Microsoft. If they were merely to deny me updates made after my purchase, that would be understandable, but they've gone further than that. To play the game as it existed when I purchased it, I need Microsoft's continued approval in the present and into the future.
Now I pirate a game I once bought, because I refuse to sign up to those new terms and due to that refusal, cannot play the game even the version of the game I originally bought. Lesson learned: buying games is for chumps. I am now reticent to buy any game from any company; any of them might get bought by microsoft too. When companies do shit like this they aren't just harming the users of that specific software, but the entire industry as a whole.
- MereInterest 4y agoEven further: I bought minecraft in alpha, when the purchase agreement included receiving all future versions of minecraft. Going from "all future versions" to "well only this specific version and also we've migrated your account through multiple different systems so if you could just contact support that would be great" is rather frustrating.