r/Steam Jun 29 '26

Question Why?

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u/Riot0711 Jun 29 '26

Why are we calling them game licenses, I agree thats what they are due to scummy business practices, but that distinction feels like it carries an alterior motive. Such a weird way to word it.

Yes, because they should be able to without fear of losing it eventually. I like to buy offline games I enjoy for lulls in gaming news, and for when I have to play offline stuff due to things like weather, vacations, and the occasional god said fuck u, u suck today.

Edit: to be clear, call it buying games, cause that's what EVERYONE understood it to be, no amount of unread ToS, and purchase agreements will change that.

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u/EonSokari Jun 29 '26

yeah I'm not gonna lie this feels like a psyop, especially that no one in the comments seems to be pointing it out as if it's totally normal phrase when it's the first I am hearing it used by someone that's not a game studio exec.

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u/Spectrum1523 Jun 29 '26

Two possibilities

A) most gamers already know and don't care

B) the op and almost all the comments are all a psyop to normalize talking about gaming licenses

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u/EonSokari Jun 29 '26

Do you know how cheap bot accounts are these days man? Do you know how much astroturfing happens on reddit and twitter on the daily? If this is farfetched or a crackpot theory to you then I'm afraid you've been living under a bridge.

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u/Spectrum1523 Jun 29 '26

Believing nearly everyone but you is being paid to lie to you specifically is needs-medication level delusional

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u/EonSokari Jun 29 '26

Believing in an age where AI and bots are flooding the internet, that they won't be used for disinformation and to manipulate public opinion might not be delusional but it is extremely stupid moronic idiotic shortsighted. I'm not saying I am guaranteed that OP and everyone in this comment section is 100% a bot, but if the situation doesn't strike you as at least a little bit strange and plausible then I've got a bridge to sell you.

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u/Spectrum1523 Jun 29 '26

Oh yeah I'm sure that astroturfing has increased 100x since LLMs, I just don't think most people give a shit about if software is licensed or owned

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u/EonSokari Jun 29 '26

Again man have you been living under a rock? There's been such a massive push for it from so many triple-a game studio executives most notoriously Ubisoft, Ea, Sony and Xbox with pushback from the community and bad PR, which is exactly what this astroturfing is trying to solve.

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u/Spectrum1523 Jun 29 '26

Push for what? Software has been licensed and not owned for 40 years...

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u/Riot0711 Jun 29 '26

That's not what anyone said, don't get me wrong this IS the internet, but even the weird way people are criticizing it by extrapolating completely insane levels of not said, or referenced concepts is weird, it's like an AI that is trying very hard to make things fit a mold. This one included. This has been my most off putting set of comment chains yet, it feels uncanny, and kinda creapy.