Gregory's Server@gamingonlinux I think the honeymoon period of digital purchases is over and it's time to get some proper legislation about it. I find it highly misleading to say I'm "purchasing" something, when I'm really getting a temporary license with uncertain expiration date.
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 @JessTheUnstill I don't know if we can even say any more that physical games exist. The way games are released, they can now put some loader stub on the disc knowing it'll pull the actual game off their CDN anyway on install. The disc is merely a dongle.  @apzpins @gamingonlinux On a related note (because it's PlayStation), we need legislation for proper archival of games. Plenty of countries have a law that mandates archival copies of newly released books for national libraries. We should do the same for games, preferably together with source code and all subsequent patches. |
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And now that so much PHYSICAL shit requires connections back to some corps' servers to even do basic functionality, it's not even like owning the thing means you have any reason it will continue working the moment the corp goes belly up or shutters that service.