Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it
Aceticon@lemmy.world 14 hours agoIf there is one think we should all have learned by now in this era is that talk means nothing at all: there have to be hard contractual clausules along with personal punishment for those who break them or some kind of escrow system for money meant to go into that “end of life” plan for it to actually be genuine.
“Valve reps have said” is worth as much as the paper it’s written on and it’s not even written on paper.
SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Except they have proven this so far to be accurate. Games that have long since been removed from sale are still downloadable for people who purchased them at the time. Which is more than others can say.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Well, as the guy falling from the top of the Empire State Building was overheard saying on his way down: “well, so far so good”.
“So far” proves nothing because it can be “so far” only because they conditions or something different haven’t yet happenned.
If their intentions are really the purest, most honest and genuine of all, they will place themselves under a contractual obligation to do so and put money aside for an “end of life plan” which they can’t legally use for other things.
Abnorc@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
But the steam network is still around. When steam actually shuts down and no longer has the infrastructure to provide downloads for games, I have no idea what their plan is. They hypothetically could provide a way to remove the DRM, but I doubt that it’s something the publishers of games would allow.