Yup. Amazon just announced that games bough on Luna will not be playable in future. No refunds either.
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mrfriki@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Any kind of subscription is just a trap for everyone involved in it except for the ones setting it up. It might not look like that at the beginning but rest assured that is it only purpose. Avoid it at all cost!
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
But that is not an issue specific to subscription, but with digital licenses in general. In technical terms, this could happen with Steam too (I hope not though, I bet everything on Steam…).
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
Things aren’t so cut and dry though, there’s a nuance to things. I use it to try a bunch of games without committing to a full purchase until I feel like it’s worth buying them. What about that is a trap?
Minnels@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
The trap is the money you have to spend when you could have played a demo instead. And the larger trap, that you have to use a Microsoft product to play it on.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
Demos are rare today though. Not to mention some are outright misrepresenting the actual game. Spending some money to try a game without having to do a refund if you don’t like it is a reasonable value. As a PC player I would absolutely spend $15 bucks for a single month to try a few $40-60 games that I would likely purchase through steam after trying. I wouldn’t pay more than a single month at a time though, which also isn’t great for Microsoft.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Few games have demos nowadays though unfortunately.
I mean that’s not remotely even an issue if you’re already on Windows which most PC gamers already are.