I mean to be fair, as the court determined, the people making this game stole parts of the game to sell to you in the first place, so this was piracy with more steps. I feel like the correct action would have been for the store to stop selling the game, the people that made money be forced to give that money to the people that were harmed by the steeling of the content. I guess it’s a bad look on Epic for them too to keep money made from this and maybe they are just trying to avoid being drawn into this ordeal by doing it this way. Legal systems in other countries can be a bit more precarious than what we expect.

But yeah, it’s a dark precedent. Remove them from my library so I can’t redownload them from Epic? Never see updates? Maybe even not ever launch through Epic’s app? Sure. I get that.

I really wish these stores had better simple language right in the “buy now” buttons. (Like, for example, “Rent now!”)