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Nobody is coming into your house to change the bits on your hard drive.

• skotobaza 1y ago
  But publishers can restrict your access to the game if you decline the latest update.
  • akerl_ 1y ago
    They can restrict your access to the server-side infrastructure that they run, yes.
    • afavour 1y ago
      Which is often required for the simple act of starting a game, even if the game runs offline.
    • skotobaza 1y ago
      Which in turn makes some games unable to run anything (even single-player modes).
• aidenn0 1y ago
  It's been a while since I gamed, but auto-update on launch was a thing even a decade ago.
• jasonjayr 1y ago
  In a famous incident many years ago, Amazon "memory hole'd" a copy of 1984 from people's personal Kindles when they lost the license to sell it. https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deletion-from-kindle-examined https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deleti...