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Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.

So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.

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ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Don’t get me wrong here, I understand the pushback from the community in this regard and i’m not try to defend proprietary software.

I’m more or less letting the original commenter know that they really don’t own the game or game files they purchase from common store-fronts, they simply own a license to download and play the game.

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- SparroHawc@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  they actually don’t own the game
  
  This is a fact that has been made apparent repeatedly. We know.
  
  However, you were replying to this:
  
  Make us individual game owners pay license every time we download and install the game?
  
  With this:
  
  This is how it’s been done for decades now?
  
  …which is patently false.
  
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