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People have indeed been warning about this for years, particularly in spaces like Steam where you don't even have a physical item to pretend you own. For a long
by foobarchu 2y ago
People have indeed been warning about this for years, particularly in spaces like Steam where you don't even have a physical item to pretend you own. For a long time the response has mostly been "yeah right why would they revoke the licenses?".
This just happens to have been kicked off by one of the first high profile cases of exactly that happening with games (that I know of). It also happened a lot this year and last with movies and TV shows that were allegedly "bought" on platforms like PlayStation and Crunchyroll but were actually licensed by the rights holders.
- Our_Benefactors 2y agoIn my experience Steam is actually extremely good in this area. I have games in my steam library which haven’t been sold on the steam store in years, and I can still download from the steam servers and play without any issues or friction. Some of them are EA and Ubisoft titles that were pulled so those publishers could sell exclusively on their store launchers.
- foobarchu 2y agoValve has historically been good about this, but the point is that the past doesn't guarantee the future. You cannot trust them to keep a thing for any amount of time without something legally binding. Steam also can't do anything to protect you from games that require servers to play if those servers are shut down. Case in point, "Concord". They can offer direct refunds (I know they did that with The Day Before), but then doing that is a PR move that you can't rely on.