Steam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a game

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Zippy Bot · 2 months ago

BigTrout75@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Same is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.

cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months ago

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

MataVatnik@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

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