The confirmation came from the Steam support staff earlier this month when Resetera forum user delete12345 asked Steam support if he can put his Steam library in...
Depends on what country you live in. Just because they call is that doesn’t mean the law and courts will see it their way.
Relatedly, check out www.StopKillingGames.com. When you buy a game without an expiration date on the box it either is illegal or should be explicitly made illegal to destroy your copy of the game when the company shuts down their servers. Stop Killing Games is a campaign to stop this from happening, and it’s actually getting some progress like being noticed and picked up by politicians. If you know Freeman’s Mind, Civil Protection, or Ross’s Game Dungeon, this campaign was started by Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) who made all of those.
shrugs framing it this way feels like a finance industry tactic where business people attempt to seem intelligent and beyond the public’s capacity to understand by taking concepts and renaming them to finance concepts and then pretending their grift is different than every other con man’s grift in history.
Steam sells games, that is far as I need to zoom in, any farther and business bros are just wasting my time with their sandcastles made out of PowerPoints and economic spiritualism that is grounded in absolutely nothing other than absolving the person running the business for the harm they may enact in doing so.
So you can inherit a house, but not a freakin’ game… is that even legal?
The issue is that steam (like the other stores except gog) doesnt sell games, they sell licenses.
Depends on what country you live in. Just because they call is that doesn’t mean the law and courts will see it their way.
Relatedly, check out www.StopKillingGames.com. When you buy a game without an expiration date on the box it either is illegal or should be explicitly made illegal to destroy your copy of the game when the company shuts down their servers. Stop Killing Games is a campaign to stop this from happening, and it’s actually getting some progress like being noticed and picked up by politicians. If you know Freeman’s Mind, Civil Protection, or Ross’s Game Dungeon, this campaign was started by Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) who made all of those.
shrugs framing it this way feels like a finance industry tactic where business people attempt to seem intelligent and beyond the public’s capacity to understand by taking concepts and renaming them to finance concepts and then pretending their grift is different than every other con man’s grift in history.
Steam sells games, that is far as I need to zoom in, any farther and business bros are just wasting my time with their sandcastles made out of PowerPoints and economic spiritualism that is grounded in absolutely nothing other than absolving the person running the business for the harm they may enact in doing so.
Well you’re really just inheriting a subscription to the house, you have to keep paying the annual fees or the state takes it away from you.