Which is why this will be fleeting if it ever gets implemented at all. Companies won’t allow it until they can spin it to their satisfaction. For now if it’s just CA, they can say “oh crazy CA and their crazy regulations” just like they say about the cancer warnings which actually are quite useful in reducing your lifetime cumulative exposure even if the chemicals from a single product won’t kill you immediately.
Good. This should have been clarified years ago, and not just in California. I’ve bought too much content that is no longer accessible. For instance, from the Wii store…
Which is why I will never buy a modern console. Once the company making them shutdowns the servers, the hardware will be useless. Unlike retro consoles that use physical media, which are highly sought after today.
They might be the most common because they’re the easiest, but there are also still plenty of people actually paying for the games. I’ll never be convinced that piracy is an actual threat to making money. Piracy has never been easier, just see /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for proof, and yet pretty much all forms of entertainmment are as profitable as ever.
I remember buying fallout 4 and when the dlc came out I bought those digitally. My PS4 died so I bought another, linked my accounts etc… two years later I decided I wanted to play fallout again, so I load it up and go to download the dlc and it’s asking me to purchase them again. I check my library and they’re gone. I check my game and the files won’t load because I’m missing the dlc files.
Anyways I contacted PlayStation who said that because they have no record of me owning these on their end they can’t help. I have even the purchase emails but because they lost all the data on their end they refuse to give me my money or dlc. So yeah that’s when I realized that a digital library can just be pulled out from under you, no matter how much you spent on it.
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Which is why this will be fleeting if it ever gets implemented at all. Companies won’t allow it until they can spin it to their satisfaction. For now if it’s just CA, they can say “oh crazy CA and their crazy regulations” just like they say about the cancer warnings which actually are quite useful in reducing your lifetime cumulative exposure even if the chemicals from a single product won’t kill you immediately.
Good. This should have been clarified years ago, and not just in California. I’ve bought too much content that is no longer accessible. For instance, from the Wii store…
The Wii store remains my go-to example when talking to people who actually believe they own their digital purchases.
Like, Nah fam.
Which is why I will never buy a modern console. Once the company making them shutdowns the servers, the hardware will be useless. Unlike retro consoles that use physical media, which are highly sought after today.
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How can anyone offer that?
It shouldn’t be that hard, gog.com manages to do it
That said, GOG releases is the most common kind on torrent trackers where there are any.
So - there is virtue to commercial concerns, but not in the way that assropes customers.
They might be the most common because they’re the easiest, but there are also still plenty of people actually paying for the games. I’ll never be convinced that piracy is an actual threat to making money. Piracy has never been easier, just see /c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com for proof, and yet pretty much all forms of entertainmment are as profitable as ever.
Oh I thought they meant having the content permanently available for download, which is impossible. Thanks for the clarification!
Google play music used to offer it as well.
I remember buying fallout 4 and when the dlc came out I bought those digitally. My PS4 died so I bought another, linked my accounts etc… two years later I decided I wanted to play fallout again, so I load it up and go to download the dlc and it’s asking me to purchase them again. I check my library and they’re gone. I check my game and the files won’t load because I’m missing the dlc files.
Anyways I contacted PlayStation who said that because they have no record of me owning these on their end they can’t help. I have even the purchase emails but because they lost all the data on their end they refuse to give me my money or dlc. So yeah that’s when I realized that a digital library can just be pulled out from under you, no matter how much you spent on it.
Sucker.
What country are you in? You may be entitled to a refund/replacement since you have the receipts
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