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It's been like this forever. You have a "license to play the game" same as the movies you buy are a license to play the content in a private setting
If a movie rescinds the license to play then you get your money back.
Like when Amazon pulled to license for people who purchased 1984.
https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deletion-from-kindle-examined
They dont follow this policy anymore. The T&C clearly state that you dont own the digital media and are not entitled to access it.
It should be forbidden to even refer to it as buying (I think some places already have laws for that), and they should also be forced to put a big disclaimer every time stating the game might become unavailable at any moment if it has things like DRM or core online functions.