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Steam now tells gamers up front that they're buying a license, not a game (www.engadget.com)

submitted 2 months ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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[–] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Every game I bought before the wording change should be under my ownership imo. Retroactive shit is bullshit.

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[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you didn’t already know this 20 years ago then you are special.

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Oor you dont pay attention to tech news.

Theres a reason california passed that law, its not clear enough that you dont own the games

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Is it a blanket statement for every purchase regardless of what game it is?
If so, that's completely useless.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just like popups about cookies!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Those are like a real life Navi from Zelda.
"Hey! Link!" one every site is annoying.
That crap really needs to be a browser setting.

[–] slough_monster@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not really. If you buy the game on gog, you own it.

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[–] Pixlbabble@lemm.ee -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You used to able to buy a game in a box and it came with a code. Games got too large and instead of the next thing after Blu-Ray, they went full digital. Maybe we can get legislation for PC game have to have a physical option and have discs for installing and when you use the code you can undo the code and be able to resell it. Thoughts?

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