Zippy BotAB to GamingEnglish · 1 month agoSteam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a gamewww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down12
arrow-up156arrow-down1external-linkSteam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a gamewww.rockpapershotgun.comZippy BotAB to GamingEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareBigTrout75@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoSame is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.
minus-squarecmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoI was thinking the same thing. I remember playing doom on pc and it was pretty clear then who the rights holder is… They just couldn’t remove access, so it felt a lot less like I was “renting” the privilege
minus-squareMataVatnik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoI used to be an account manager for scientific software. We were pretty explicit on the limitation of support we would give on old licenses
Same is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.
I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing doom on pc and it was pretty clear then who the rights holder is…
They just couldn’t remove access, so it felt a lot less like I was “renting” the privilege
I used to be an account manager for scientific software. We were pretty explicit on the limitation of support we would give on old licenses