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Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital Games (games.gg)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The relevant section is blunt. "The Software is licensed to you, not sold," the EULA states. "You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for."

The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony's EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.

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[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

It’s in the EULA for every piece of software,** including physical.**

Bolded for those that aren't getting it.

Even if you buy a disc, that does not guarantee you can play the game in the future. Often games have to be authenticated on install, and if that authenticating server is no longer online, you can't play the game--even if you have all the files required to play it.

Europe had a whole "Stop Killing Games" initiative that would require companies to unlock games they are no longer supporting, but that mysteriously vanished from the legislative docket after meetings with game companies that organizers weren't invited to.

Stay mad, but you need to be mad at the right things.

[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (10 children)

Kind of funny how Nintendo was here before any of this was a problem and they'll be here after it's all done. You put that cartridge into your console, and you can play it. It may be version 1.0, but you can play it. And every single physical Switch game that requires a download, must state so on the front of the box, so you can avoid buying them. It'll cost $70 a decade from now, but it'll run after you pay it lol

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah, like I said,

And every single physical Switch game that requires a download, must state so on the front of the box, so you can avoid buying them.

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