[Mashiro]

Digital licenses are nothing but a lie. You own nothing and everything can be taken away from you at an instant whenever it pleases the companies that own the IP. Nobody cares what you have to say and how much you have paid for the product you have just lost. That's the cold and hard truth about digital licenses and every digital media we can buy nowadays. Even worse with "always online license and DRM models". Games aren't as worse as movies are though.

Here are some great examples from subreddits that I browse on Reddit daily:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments...purchased/
- https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/24/2093...x-bob-iger
- https://9to5mac.com/2019/05/14/itunes-warner-bros-4k/
- https://www.cnet.com/news/no-apple-didnt...-happened/

You have no physical copy of the movie or TV = you have nothing after all but you spent a lot of money... loss. Doesn't matter if you paid hundreds of USD to buy digital copies on Amazon or Apple for the movies/TV shows. If the company behind the IP decides to pull the license... it's gone and you're done for.

The very same can happen to everything game if the companies really wanted. Deactivate license servers.... shutdown all game servers and etc. Your game is worth nothing and your money is gone out of all the sudden. In such cases even your physical copy turns to trash to polutes the environment without further worth.

And I have experienced this kind of thing for games actually. Some games I bought digitally through a game store. Meaning no physical copy. Some day the game disappeared from the site and my purchase library. I contacted support and asked what was going on... License issues they said. I thought well, I still have the serial key... YEAH NO. The key was invalidated actually by the IP owner (EA...). I contacted EA via live chat just to hear bascially this "not our problem... get the f*** out of the chat queue".

I stopped buying games totally since a few years now. EA not going to get a single cent for their reused crap every year nor any other game studio. Bethesda is screwing up. Other game companies are screwing their customers by going to Epic and signing exclusive contracts. Greed... People get angry and back down from crowdfunded game studios. They deserve it very well! Breaking their promises to their customers or better said the people who made the game possible by being investors and believers. How ret****d and greedy does one have to be to achieve this kind of scumbag level?


So if I were any of you... I'd be happy to get validated on being able to resell my game to someone else and get rid of all the BS. But I'm as always talking against walls here. This forum is far too small. We see each year how millions of basically "brain dead" people buy the same trash football games from EA or other game series and studios that reuse the same game over and over again. And even worse... people support cancer like Pay2Win, Loot Boxes and etc.