It is not unreasonable to want to own or resell a game I buy I understand that can’t be done on digital only PC storefronts
This absolutely CAN be done, and again, MS and Sony built the infrastructure to support it. Steam could as well.
digital store that literally JUST TOOK AWAY PEOPLES LEGAL PURCHASES (stole)
Again, you NEVER owned the game, period. Every single game you have ever purchased (even cartridge ones) came with an EULA explicitly stating that the game itself was licensed, not sold, that the studio/publisher had no legal duty to provide access for any specific period of time. You can go look at the games on your shelf RIGHT NOW and confirm this.
The only way I can see this working is if they let you trade games to other players in a public like marketplace not where they offer to give you $2 back when you revoke the license back to them like Xbox was trying to do.
Do you have any source for this claim? Because I worked with the products during this timeframe and this is contrary to my understanding and every piece of NDA’d documentation I read.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Ok so I feel like I have to explain this, I am aware that when you buy something you don’t own the rights to the intellectual property itself.
If I buy a Clive Barker book I don’t get to print it out and sell a million copies, but I can sell that ONE copy that I bought.
The movie thing works like this, I bought it on PlayStation digitally= PlayStation took it away and fucked me.
I buy the DVD from Warner Bros or whatever Sony is involved in and 10 years later when they remove it from stores guess what? I can still watch it or resell it.
I feel like you’re intentionally not trying to understand the difference here.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I FULLY understand that you don’t like this. That does not make it morally objectionable or illegal.
Did you read the terms of service when you signed up for the digital movie service? Did you read the terms of sale when you purchased that digital movie? Did both of those things tell you very clearly in plain english that the the owners of the service reserved the right to remove content at their discretion and provided no assurance of ongoing perpetual access? Did you complete the purchase any way? How is this anything but a YOU problem?
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes I an very aware of all the terms of service it comes with.
Know what I did after watching or playing it? Sold the disc.
My country gives me the legal right to do so. So all the licensing and shit doesn’t mean I couldn’t resell a game disc or DVD/blu ray after I got finished with it.
I know a disc is a license. Thing is, that movie Sony took away? Those games Sony delisted? All of them still work on disc, license or not. All of them can be reself or traded, license or not.
What part of this is untrue?
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s where you start acting like the fact that discs HAVE existed means you should always be entitled to that.
Game companies don’t want to make discs anymore, they don’t need a fucking reason, its THEIR ART.
If that’s a deal breaker for you then find a new hobby.
The problem is that instead of being an adult presenting your opinion as “this thing I like is changing or going away. I have to stop engaging with the thing I like because of my opinions/preference/ethics and that is sad.” you are presenting it as an objective moral argument; that is what I am arguing with.
I hate that some of my favorite movies only exist because the involvement of horrible sex criminals. It’s sad that I can’t enjoy those things anymore because of my opinions/preferences/ethics, but I am not suggesting or demanding that those movies should be taken away from everyone on earth because of how I feel.