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[–] firecat@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago (21 children)

It’s the same as Steam, you sign the contract called “ User Agreement” that has a section on how you don’t own the games. It’s legal and nothing you can do about it. User Agreement also forbids you from suing Valve Corporation, so anyone who wants to own games from SteM legally cannot.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 21 points 10 months ago (8 children)

You decided to use as an example the only company known to not overstep in this regard. Steam has historically refunded in full the cost of games that have been withdrawn. It's likely the agreements for these are part of the requirements of publishers rather than the platform itself, as well as the reasons to withdraw them.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Steam didn't refund any of the cost of the games their DRM rendered inoperable on my Windows 7 PC. They happily took my money 1 week before dropping support.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's on you. They extended support to that legacy os far beyond it being end of life.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is important information they left out, but it could have happened while 7 was still supported by MS.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

It's on them. I don't want "support" I wanted them to disable their DRM before they abandoned Windows 7.

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