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If they do, Google should refund all hardware and game purchases.

• bluescrn 4y ago
  There should probably be more regulations to protect both the users and the environment from hardware that becomes e-waste the moment a cloud service shuts down. But as for the software side, it's pretty much down to users to realise they they don't 'own' any digital content unless it's completely DRM free and not reliant on somebody else's servers. Stadia was always high-risk and quite likely to fail, but how many years can you guarantee that something like Steam or iTunes will remain up for? (And even if the servers remain up for many decades to come, you could potentially lose access to all your 'purchases' for other reasons... perhaps your near-future social credit score will drop below the required threshold for continued access?)