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If I buy something, not only should I be allowed to keep it until I die, but I should also be allowed to pass it on to someone else after I die. I should also b
by Flimm 1y ago
If I buy something, not only should I be allowed to keep it until I die, but I should also be allowed to pass it on to someone else after I die. I should also be allowed to give it or to sell it even before I die. That's currently impossible with many of these so-called digital purchases.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoIt's a huge bummer that Steam has trained a whole generation to give up their right to own a game disc they can loan, trade or resell. And see it as a good thing because now all their games are in one "place".
- doubled112 1y agoA lot of games I bought on Steam are so heavily discounted I’m willing to take the risk. If it goes missing, I will still have spent less than it would have cost me to rent it for a week back in the day.
- add-sub-mul-div 1y agoNo single loss of any digital good will ever break anyone. The point is that digital "ownership" was normalized and the rights have been lost period.
- blharr 1y agoWhat happens if your steam account gets hacked/banned/deleted out of your control? Then you can lose hundreds to thousands of game purchases.
- doubled112 1y agoWhat happens if my house burns down? Or somebody steals my car full of CDs? Those problems also exist with physical belongings.
- blharr 1y agoWhich is why you should be able to back them up too! DMCA laws are also unreasonable
- makeitdouble 1y agoSteam came at a time where publishers were already fighting to stop resells. For instance copy protection was abused to expand to single use codes. In a way, the lower price of Steam helped swallow the disappearance of the second hand market. I see the point, but wouldn't set it as a positive thing (neutral at most?)