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Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year agoWhich doesn’t make any sense whatsoever for a cloud gaming platform.
If you don’t own the hardware the game is stored in, you don’t own the game. Which was shown when they closed stadia down and everyone lost all of their games.
One of the selling points of cloud gaming is exactly to be able to play it right after purchasing it without all that hassle. No more downloads, installs, game and driver updates, and hardware limitations.
We don’t have that much control over steam games either. Whether the game is in our storage or not doesn’t matter at all. Being able to play it it’s what matters.
Which is why a game streaming service makes sense.
But that’s all it is. A service. You don’t own anything about it. You pay a few bucks a month and get to play games without having the hassle of having a console or pc.
Cloud gaming makes sense and I’m not arguing against that. But not from an ownership perspective. Cloud gaming is gaming as a service in its purest form.
We have never owned any creative work, you are granted the rights to use a copy. It’s always been this way.
Owning was never the important part, it’s about being able to play/use/enjoy it.
Un4@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes but we got refunded and some publishers even gave licenses on other platforms for their games even though it was refunded