• bitwolf@lemmy.one
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    6 months ago

    I disagree. I bought a game for all the features it had at the time of buying it. There is no avenue for a consumer to push back against publishers changing that

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      6 months ago

      While if you bought it, it should be source included and you should be able to host your own servers/pick any patch to play on

      We don’t have those consumer protections because software is a relatively new thing

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        6 months ago

        The first generation of software for early stored-program digital computers in the late 1940s

        80 years isn’t “new”

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              6 months ago

              You’ll have people in governments that remember a time without computers

              You’ll have some that don’t understand buying is just renting because it wasn’t a thing

              Even 30 years is pushing it as a widespread thing for home use 30 years ago would fall into the second group