Zippy BotB to [email protected]English • 12 hours agoSteam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a gamewww.rockpapershotgun.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down11
arrow-up148arrow-down1external-linkSteam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a gamewww.rockpapershotgun.comZippy BotB to [email protected]English • 12 hours agomessage-square3fedilink
minus-square@BigTrout75linkEnglish8•8 hours agoSame is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.
minus-square@MataVatniklinkEnglish1•34 minutes 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
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•8 hours 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
Same is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.
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
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