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This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pretty big assumption that you own something digital you paid for. Let's be honest, you paid for a license not a product.

[–] kolorafa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

I concur Buyer should not gain rights to product, so they should not be allowed to profit from it, but they should be able to preserve it, unless the license that you actually buy had a time limitation, but that should be clearly stated when you buy it that you only buy access to it to (at least) X amount of time like you have with online subscriptions.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

That’s why pirating is completely based.