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The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 2 months ago (28 children)

https://www.thegamer.com/playstation-deleting-concord-consoles/

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (25 children)

    Valve also does this btw

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (19 children)

    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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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] -5 points 2 months ago* (6 children)

    I don’t see how a different situation has anything to do with it? You can make any judgement you like but the facts are the facts

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    What facts? You're comparing Sony manually removing game data from accounts that had legitimate ownership of it with Steam automatically reversing the registration of a game you didn't pay for. I'm sure you've done some serious mental gymnastics to justify whatever grudge you hold over the situation, but it's entirely apples to oranges.

    Those are the facts.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You’re the one holding the grudge lmao. I just told you it can happen

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah it happens if you’re scamming them and not paying, oh wow what a surprise

    On Sony it happens if you legitimately pay for a thing you’re supposed to be able to keep in your library.

    Kind of a different thing completely, but it seems you can’t tell the difference.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You don’t need to be so sour that you misunderstood the situation. It happens.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I didn’t expect the payment to fail and I definitely didnt expect the games I started playing to be deleted from my harddrive. Are you trying to say you wouldn’t be surprised if something you didn’t know could happen until I informed you, happened?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I wouldn't expect the payment to fail, but I wouldn't be surprised either if I couldn't keep games that I didn't pay for. And I wouldn't compare either this to sony removing games you paid for (without the payment being rejected).

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    You didn’t know steam can delete your games, now you do. You’re welcome

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Holy shit are you obtuse. No. Steam can revoke your licenses if you don't pay for them. And that is a completely different thing than revoking your license after you paid for them without a refund. One of them is taking from you stuff that you didn't pay for in the first place. The other one is taking from you stuff that you paid for. Do you understand the difference between paying for something and not paying for something?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Seems the only obtuse one is you. You keep harping on irrelevant things unprompted. Good luck!

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I mean, you are saying that valve does the same thing as sony yet it's not the same thing at all and when someone points this out, you just ignore it? I'll ask it again: do you understand the difference between paying and not paying for something?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    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 can't even do this if they wanted to, they are unable to uninstall a game you have downloaded already.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh, removing stuff you didn't pay for is pretty understandable tbh. Didn't realise they even let you play stuff before the payment is made.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Agreed. It probably has to do with the third party (humble bundle) validation process. This functionality however is in the Steam subscriber agreement, along with “any reason we see fit”

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