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PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games
www.polygon.com/sony-digital-games-lawsuit-california/
Replying to @unglueclass23@programming.dev
I think in terms of the subscriber access to Xbox GamePass or PlayStation Plus, this is valid. But not for game purchases.
The store purchases have always been about buying a game. If I go to Amazon and buy a thing, it gets shipped to my house and I own it - the experience of adding an item to a cart, viewing the cart, and checking out are the same across game stores, for online and brick and mortar, whether digital and physical goods are being purchased.
If I don’t own the item I am buying on the PlayStation store, why the hell am I paying a premium for it? I thought it was because I will always be able to play that game without having to worry about the disc getting scratched and in both cases I would own the item.
Replying to @jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml
If you buy a CD with software and it gets shipped to your house, you own the disc, not the software. It’s always been this way, we are just now living in a world where the technology exists to take the software away from you after you paid.
Replying to @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
Correct, I owned the license to it. It wasn’t revokable though.
Replying to @jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml
Which do you want? A single physical disc that is a tangible product? Or access to a server that has data redundancy?
You seem to want the guarantee of high availability servers but expect to claim ownership of the data. You never owned the data, and you don’t now.
Replying to @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
You’re hallucinating. I never claimed to want HA servers or claim ownership of data.
If I pay for ownership of a license, I just want it to be permanent. Non-revokable. I don’t care how it is delivered.
This is why I use Serif’s Affinity applications, not Adobe’s etc.