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Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games (games.gg)
submitted 1 week ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The relevant section is blunt. "The Software is licensed to you, not sold," the EULA states. "You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for."

The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony's EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.

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[–] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 child)

in very limited terms I think Valve might fully remove games (like the crypto miner one) from accounts but other then that if you bought it you own it as far as I've seen with Steam. I have transformers devastation which was delisted, and while the achievements won't really show up on my account iirc, and I can't sell the card drops on the market, I can still install and play it fine

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Nah see my other comment. You don't own shit on Steam. In fact the agreement specifically says you may need to use the client and be connected to the Internet in order to even play your games. Like if steam shut down tomorrow and just stopped existing it's very possible they could legally just give you the middle finger and say sucks for you.

    IANAL and there's more to it than just the contract you have with Valve as far as the law goes but the way the contract is written you have no ownership of anything on the platform.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago

    I interpret that as Steam covering for some enhittified games on their store that require a constant internet connection.

    For example several games I have in my Steam library work fine offline.

    But the Megaman Battle Network remake subtly requires an internet connection to start the gamea from the title screen.

    Very misleading as the game technically boots offline but you can't leave the title screen.

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