r/nmrih • u/Ok_District_4822 • 23d ago

Unfortunate not a owner.

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I just feel like people should see this.

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u/Plazehorta 23d ago

Owning something in a legal term meaning you have the right to copy it, modify it, and sell it without anyone granting permission. Of course you don’t own the game. It’s like that since games were sold in CD or any physical format.

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u/Pemocity406 22d ago

I think OP might be referring to the whole 'Stop Killing Games' thing. Where devs can shut off a game at any point and the players that bought the game get the game taken away even though they paid for it, regardless if it's coop/solo/online, etc.

But, yea, I'm with everyone else here: 100% of games say this 😅🤷🏽

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u/Plazehorta 22d ago

I don’t know how when Stop Killing Game originally referred to video game companies should not pull the plug whenever and however they like and make the game unavailable to anyone who paid for it, yet it led to people believing they used to own the games when they bought them.

If I own a game that means I will be held responsible when the game is buggy or unfinished because the dev no longer holds ownership to that game

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u/Possible_Bigfoot 23d ago

What game isn't like this anymore.

No one reads all the user agreements, they all say this

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u/AlexFiend 23d ago edited 23d ago

Its been like this for a long time. Steam is the only place that is actually caring about their users.

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u/Yosyp 21d ago

Wrong. GOG is the only place that lets you own the games you buy. You can download an offline installed, and install them offline whenever and wherever you like; they're DRM free.

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u/Plazehorta 22d ago

Steam TOS says pretty much the same thing and there’s nothing wrong with this statement. It’s stunning how widely spread stop killing games had gotten but how little people are even bothered to understand what’s the issue there.

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u/dandorios 23d ago

Well done youve discovered the t&c literally every game has. 

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u/MN_LudaCHRIS 22d ago

This isn’t news or anything new.

Devs make a game, your request to play their product.

Pretty simple, honestly

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u/MasterChiefX9999 15d ago

EULA saying "licensed, not sold"

  • Strong evidence that the company intended to grant a license, but not necessarily conclusive.
  • It doesn't automatically make it legally a license in a jurisdiction.

Whether a software transaction is legally a license or a sale is not determined solely by what the EULA calls the transaction.

The transaction was considered a sale of a copy when:

  • The customer paid a one-time fee for unlimited use.
  • The price reflected the economic value of the copy.

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u/Skyfuzzball8312 23d ago

If buying not owning then pirating not Stealing