No. Steam elects to absorb the lifetime hosting costs and builds a perpetual license into the publishing deal.
All Sony and MS publishing deals are time bound and the developer/publisher is responsible for hosting costs. When the publisher doesn’t want to pay anymore, the title gets taken down.
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Just googled it and no, they don’t do that.
Do you have a source for that? Sony says they take 30% cut. You pay via revenue share of a cur of game sales and not recurring maintenance costs.
So nope. Sony being anti consumer isn’t because of their licensing agreement here. They take the same exact split that steam does for the same reasons. They don’t pay for download hosting on the PS store or steam store except for that 30% revenue split.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“Trust me bro, I googled it!”
And what happens when the developer/publishers licenses (middleware, brands/teams, music, etc) expire?
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Provide the source for your claims and prove me wrong.
No? Ah. Didn’t think so.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sorry, can’t, NDA.