You can’t steal a digital game and they don’t sell games. They sell a limited, revocable at any time license for you to play game.
Also, if you cannot sell this game you “bought” to me, you don’t own it.
Video game companies make heaps of money.
Sure you dont own it, you have a right to be angry.
But how does that justify you using something someone spend their time on?
I mean, you dont have to use it if you dont like it, but you do, they spend their time and give you terms to use their product. Thats it.
Games that are on GOG you do own. Same as a physical copy.
This game isn’t on GOG (yet) but its still in early access so only time will tell if it makes it or not.
My biggest gripe was not owning what I pay for as well but there are some players in the game that don’t support such practices consider supporting them.
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
“You can’t steal a digital game” is borderline sovereign citizen talk. Artists operate within the structure of society. Just because the medium in which they deploy their art is digital and most distribution platforms feasible have licenses with unsavory terms, theft is not automatically justified.
That sort of logic could extend to the idea that it’s okay to squat in a particular ocupied house because the owner doesn’t own it, a bank does, and the money is imaginary, and the bank’s policies are unfair. There is something valid and authentic to the sentiment, but practically speaking, you’re still just being an asshole.
That is to say, extenuating circumstances may modify that. If you can’t afford a game, or if you really hate the developers, more people may agree with you. If you would freeze to death outside of the home, or, if the home’s current occupants occupy it unfairly, then perhaps people would be more empathetic.
But to declare that the wholesale theft of digital goods as fine just because you don’t like the platform is anarchy without any of the nuance of anarchy.