• EndOfLine@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Not the first time people “bought” digital media only to have it taken away.

    Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

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      11 months ago

      Apple did it to apps I bought years ago, Microsoft has done it with Live Arcade games I can no longer redownload, and Nintendo closed their online stores to consoles they stopped supporting. The only store I can think of at the moment which doesn’t seem to fuck people is Steam (perhaps Epic but it’s too new to cast opinions on).

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          11 months ago

          Not exactly Valve’s fault

          “To be fair, with the servers shutdown, the game would have been impossible to play anyways. This isn’t simply because it’s an online-only game. In fact, Order of War: Challenge has 18 single-player missions as well. But due to always-online DRM, even the single-player portion of the game requires the servers to be up and running.”

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            I guess it’s the Always-On DRM that’s the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980’s. And I mean FORCE, as in “you can’t be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM”

            I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

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            11 months ago

            Also, at the end of the article:

            “Update: It appears that contrary to what I first believed, the single-player portion of the game—Order of War without the “Challenge”—is still available on Steam, and only the multi-player content has been removed.”

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      11 months ago

      No DRM is the way to go, physical or digital. Some physical DRM can revoke the licence on the disk (like Blu-ray)

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        11 months ago

        How? It would need an internet connection to revoke it, and you can’t write to the Blu-ray disc can you? In other words, you could just turn off internet connection from the player?

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          11 months ago

          Blu-Ray discs can carry offline updates that blacklist other discs. All players must support these updates as part of licensing the technology. All your blu-rays may play today, but if an update comes along to revoke the license on a title and you play a disc that carries the update that enables that revocation, it won’t play back on your device. It’s occasionally been used to disable known pirated discs, and so far hasn’t been used on licensed materials, but “so far” is never much assurance.

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      I had to change my email/account with google and couldn’t port the apps in the gplay store. This was mostly due to having a google domains that did many years ago, but still didn’t get any solution when I explained that to the google customer service. It was clear to me that is not worth wasting a penny there.

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      11 months ago

      Physical media or local downloads is the way to go.

      PS5 games are like 90 GB. A DVD ROM stores 4.7 GB.

      Its over.