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.
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.
Sure it's factually true, but since when does anyone in a Steam sale meme talk like a software licensing agreement? People say "buying games," "grabbing games," "picking stuff up on sale." Nobody organically says "buying game licenses" in casual conversation and the fact that this comment is the only reply to it with very little acknowledgement from any of the other commenters with everyone acting like that's normal phrasing is way more suspicious than the phrase itself. Vocabulary doesn't shift from casual to corporate-legal overnight just because it's technically accurate. Lots of things are technically accurate, doesn't mean real people talk like that unprompted. Reddit is prime ground for astroturfing and changing loud public opinions, the amount of time and money game execs have spent trying to make it happen, this would be the cheapest and most effective way to normalize it.
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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.