Pay for the games that have good consumer practices.
For the predatory games, either find some other way to get them.....or don't play/pay at all.
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For the predatory games, either find some other way to get them.....or don't play/pay at all.
It's good advice, but past experience strongly suggests not enough people are going to follow it to make a difference. I think the only way game pubishers and other media companies reform their practices is if there are enforced government regulations requiring them to do so.
They need to start calling it "long term game rental"
Correct but gross. Leasing.
Yeah, it should be listed as purchasing anymore, since you dont own it
Or -- hear me out -- the distributors should be criminally prosecuted for fraud and theft for having represented it as a sale and then reneging on it/stealing it back from the buyers.
It should be a sale and should remain a sale. But the terms need to be enforced.
Yes that is my favorite way of handling it
they saw what Blockbuster's was doing with their physical games and then said "hold my beer"
Big companies have gone wild with greed and want everything they sell to be a subscription, that along the politicians that do their bidding because they feel no pressure to do otherwise.
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They might call it sideowning or something like that
Then I should be able to sideload it onto another device!
After all, it’s no longer limited by any sort of physical, proprietary format, right?
RIGHT?!