Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square178fedilinkarrow-up1778arrow-down112cross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1766arrow-down1external-linkPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square178fedilinkcross-posted to: gaming@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaredangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·9 months agoIncorrect. Steam games are licensed to you. If the dev or publisher want to remove the game from Steam, it will still be in your library.
minus-squareKayn@dormi.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·9 months agoYou conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.
minus-squarepunseye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agothere is this old game “Blur”, it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it
minus-squareSomething Burger 🍔@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·8 months agoUntil it isn’t.
minus-squareSyrc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 months agoIt still is, the Single Player is still available if you read the article. They just shut down servers, and that’s on Square Enix.
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minus-squareSyrc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months ago Update: It appears that contrary to what I first believed, the single-player portion of the game—Order of War without the “Challenge”—is still available on Steam, and only the multi-player content has been removed.
Incorrect. Steam games are licensed to you. If the dev or publisher want to remove the game from Steam, it will still be in your library.
You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.
there is this old game “Blur”, it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it
Until it isn’t.
It still is, the Single Player is still available if you read the article. They just shut down servers, and that’s on Square Enix.
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