Comment on The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago.

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m guessing the commenter is talking about GOG and/or “legitimate” piracy on PC.

  (Legitimate piracy meaning you own the game legally but you downloaded a pirated copy to avoid DRM)

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• Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Steam also does this btw

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  • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen stuff pulled from the steam store so it’s no longer available for purchase/adding to my library, but the ones I already added, even undownloaded, have always still been available in my library, even if the game was fully defunct.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ve had my downloaded purchases from a humble bundle deleted from my PC after a couple days because the payment processor failed

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      • Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a substantially different situation, I don’t see how you can reasonably equate Sony removing game data from people’s console post-purchase due to them no longer maintaining any servers to play on with Valve not letting you keep a game that was not properly paid for in the first place.

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      • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Exactly what did you expect to happen? Were you expecting to keep the games that you didn’t pay?

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Got any sources for that? Only ever heard of them removing a game from sale, not removing it from someone who has already bought it.

    Also GOG don’t do this, they are unable to uninstall a game you have downloaded already.

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    • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yep, GOG doesn’t have the ability but Valve absolutely does. When my payment for a humble bundle failed (so, added to library and installed before the payment was resolved) Steam removed the games from my library AND drive

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, removing stuff you didn’t pay for is pretty understandable tbh.

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  • Phantaloons@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some steam games don’t have DRM… even Steam’s. Steam just hosts the files. I think Stalker(the old games) is onesuch example. The games just launch whether steam is up or not.

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sounds like a very convincing reason to never rent a Sony product again.

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