Handing online servers over to consumers could carry commercial or legal risks, she said, in addition to safety concerns due to the removal of official company moderation.
Handing online servers over to consumers could carry commercial or legal risks, she said, in addition to safety concerns due to the removal of official company moderation.
You know, I have purchased around 200 games. I have no idea how many of those can be mine because they’re linked to a store, maintained (usually) by a corporation hellbent on optimised profits, subject to mandatory updates so I have no choice but to play the way they want me to, and I don’t have the space to store them all. I don’t feel like any of them are really owned by me (and I know this is true but I reject that notion), not until they’re transferred to an offline machine.
They’re not owned by you. You own a license to use them. Some stores, like GOG, give you a less restrictive license, but it’s still a license.
GoG does actually explicitly state that you own the games bought on the platform, though who knows how well that holds in a strictly legal sense.
and the law is able to make license conditions illegal/unenforceable (like non-compete clauses in employment contracts)
Sure, but has the law made licenses for software illegal/unenforceable? No.
literally what STG is about
Cool, and no laws have been changed, and it’s debatable if any should.