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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• sirico@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s easy have some self control and only buy games that respect you

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    True. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t attack predatory behavior when we see it. If they want to sell me something, I need to own it, and that means I get to use it after they’ve stopped supporting it.

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    • MimicJar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When I pay to see a film in a theater, I don’t own the film. I don’t get to watch the film again after it leaves the theater.

      While I pay to see a concert, a play, or a musical, I don’t own those performances. I don’t get to see them again. They generally aren’t recorded (Although that is changing in some limited cases.)

      I do think a game dying is terrible and I do think games should be clearly labeled (so people can make an education decision if they want to rent the game).

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      • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This isn’t paying to see a concert, play, or musical. This is buying a book for amazon’s e-reader, and them not allowing you to read the book anymore when they put out the book’s sequel.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure, you’re paying for a performance when you watch a film or play at a theater. If I pay to watch a video game tournament, I’m likewise paying for a performance, not the game.

        When you buy a film (DVD, Bluray, or Digital Copy) or a recording of a play performance, you own that copy and can watch it as often as you want for as many years into the future as you want. What we’re saying is that video games should work the same way, if I buy a game, I should be able to play it whenever I want at any point in the future. That’s it, it’s the same thing as with a film.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know how you could do that without staying exclusively on open source

    I’m old enough that the games I’m nostalgic for are on floppy discs on my shelf, but now the games I play are downloaded and rely on whatever company keeping a server up to authenticate me

    Who knows what Microsoft will do with Minecraft in 30 years

    Who knows what Steam will do with the licences it’s sold me

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