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Do they have a record of doing this? Paranoia here is largely warranted. But people had fewer rights than they realized before. And finding a way to play old
by taeric 2y ago
Do they have a record of doing this?
Paranoia here is largely warranted. But people had fewer rights than they realized before. And finding a way to play older media is often a rather expensive endeavor.
Edit to add: I also find picking on Valve awkward here. Microsoft? Sony? I would be far more inline. Even Nintendo. Valve seems to be much more on favor of empowering users, though.
- Uvix 2y agoMicrosoft, Sony, and Nintendo all have physical releases for most of their games that they can't take from my cold dead hands. Valve has singlehandedly killed that market for PC games.
- taeric 2y agoNintendo has some where you can't rent anymore, because the save data is on cartridge. They all have limitations on regions. Again, Steam /could/ do this. Has it? The others have done the things.
- opan 2y ago3DS saved to the cart and had region-locking. Neither applies to Switch. You can get a JP copy of Splatoon 3, play it on your NA Switch, swap to the NA version of the game, and not lose anything.
- taeric 2y agoAh, that is good to hear. May pick up a switch game for the kids while in Japan, then.