I used to be an account manager for scientific software. We were pretty explicit on the limitation of support we would give on old licenses
Comment on Steam will now warn customers at checkout that they're only buying a digital license to a game
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Same is true with physical. It’s just harder for them to take it away.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing doom on pc and it was pretty clear then who the rights holder is…
They just couldn’t remove access, so it felt a lot less like I was “renting” the privilege