@gamingonlinux
I'm fairly confident that in the EU, and still AFAIK in the UK, this wouldn't be legal. In the UK this is the Unfair Contract Terms Act. The EU legislation is linked below. The schedule of unfair term includes
(d) permitting the supplier to retain sums paid where the latter decides not to perform the contract, without providing for compensation of an equivalent amount from the supplier where the latter is the party cancelling the contract;
@tokensane@gamingonlinux i'm also shure that in #Germany, this would be considered #theft by the platform holder and that doing so would at the very least make them subject to reimbursing all the costs associated with getting a replacement media!
@gamingonlinux they even use the word “purchase”. How is that not a reason to require a refund, perhaps on basis that it clear was not in fact “purchased” in the first place.
If your reply is blaming people for not reading the ToS: don’t be an ass. Companies make them difficult to parse for normal average people. When you purchase something, you expect it to be yours.
@vv221@gamingonlinux at least Steam doesn't rip games out of peoples' accounts and does at least have provisions in place to gracefully shut down if it were to fold...
I don't disagree - I just say that so far I've yet to see #Steam stealing peoples' games from their accounts.
And yes, #Valve managed to get people into liking their #AlwaysOnlineDRM as a "#feature" to the point devs get harrassed for not publishing on Steam, which is more than condemnable but inexcuseable by those doing said harrassment...
@gamingonlinux You have not purchased anything that remains part of someone else's system. You have just rented it for an indefinite period. That may not be right, but that's the way it is. Go back to DVDs.
@gamingonlinux Like everyone else says. Purchase movies and tv shows digitally, you're still stuck with it and can't do anything else with it. Purchasing a blu-ray disc or dvd is the way better option if applicable.
Edit: It also sucks because even if you purchase it digitally, you can't watch it if there are licensing issues or gets removed from a platform.
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