Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase

• radix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Legally, it’s still a license, it’s just effectively impossible to revoke.

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  • TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just like any game ever sold on a CD.

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    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Technically, probably yes, but you can buy old, opened games on eBay. I doubt you can do the same with GOG games. Digital media is much harder if not impossible to resell.

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• fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you back up the folder of a steam installed game that doesn’t need steam to run, what’s the difference?

  Owning the copy in a legal sense doesn’t affect most of the userbase tbh.

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