I looked into subscribing, but they didn’t have armoured core or the ace pilot game I wanted. I thought cloud gaming was more a service of “I own the game and use your online service for hardware issues” but apparently they gotta have the game too? Wish there was an alternative
It was originally envisaged that way, and that was the service that was initially offered, but publishers took them to court where it was determined that they somehow had a veto — despite the fact that, as you say, the customer has already bought the game
I looked into subscribing, but they didn’t have armoured core or the ace pilot game I wanted. I thought cloud gaming was more a service of “I own the game and use your online service for hardware issues” but apparently they gotta have the game too? Wish there was an alternative
It was originally envisaged that way, and that was the service that was initially offered, but publishers took them to court where it was determined that they somehow had a veto — despite the fact that, as you say, the customer has already bought the game