Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2年前PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square179fedilinkarrow-up1778cross-posted to: technology@kbin.socialhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foogaming@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1778external-linkPlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership suckswww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2年前message-square179fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@kbin.socialhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fanshackernews@derp.foogaming@beehaw.orgtechnology@lemmy.world
minus-squaredangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2年前Incorrect. Steam games are licensed to you. If the dev or publisher want to remove the game from Steam, it will still be in your library.
minus-squareKayn@dormi.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2年前You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.
minus-squareSyrc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2年前It still is, the Single Player is still available if you read the article. They just shut down servers, and that’s on Square Enix.
minus-squareSyrc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2年前 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.
minus-squarepunseye@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2年前there is this old game “Blur”, it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it
Incorrect. Steam games are licensed to you. If the dev or publisher want to remove the game from Steam, it will still be in your library.
You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.
Until it isn’t.
It still is, the Single Player is still available if you read the article. They just shut down servers, and that’s on Square Enix.
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there is this old game “Blur”, it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it