PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks - eviltoast
  • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      You conveniently left out that Valve can terminate your account for reasons unrelated to the games you’d lose that way.

    • punseye@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      there is this old game “Blur”, it got discontinued and delisted on Steam, yet those who owned it can still download and play it

      • Syrc@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        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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            11 months ago

            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.