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Nothing new for Amazon. You should see what they did to everyone’s Comixology collections. I spent good money purposely buying manga from Comixology as they were the only store with high-res copies. Guess who replaced all those books with low-res copies when they shuttered the Comixology servers.
After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna:
Judging by that, it doesn’t look like people will be losing access to the games they purchased. However they will have to access them via a different launcher from June 10th onward.
Any time you deal with Amazon, you’re either getting fucked, fucking over someone else, or both. That’s their whole business model, taking advantage of people! Just don’t.
Yes, it’s true that you won’t be able to access your third-party games through Luna anymore. However, you’ll be able to access those games through the third-party account you had to link to Luna to purchase the game. As an example, if you purchased a game from EA on Luna, then you’ll be able to continue playing that game through EA directly after these changes to Luna’s services go into effect. You aren’t getting refunds because you aren’t losing the games. You’re only losing access to them through Luna, which is fundamentally different from losing the game entirely.
While I wouldn’t have bought games for cloud gaming myself, some consumers likely bought games without other means of playing them and are now unable to make use of their purchased content.
I guess so? But that seems a bit like grasping at straws. They still have access to the games, unlike what the outrage-bait headline suggests.
And even in those cases, they could just switch to a rival service like GeForce Now, which still allows you to import third party libraries for streaming.
After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna
So the games are not actually gone, people will just have to start them directly via EA, GOG or Ubisoft instead of Amazon’s storefront.
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This should be considered a scam.
It’s not, though. You still have access to the games through the publisher, just not through Amazon.
The headline is just rage bait.
Nothing new for Amazon. You should see what they did to everyone’s Comixology collections. I spent good money purposely buying manga from Comixology as they were the only store with high-res copies. Guess who replaced all those books with low-res copies when they shuttered the Comixology servers.
What absolute fucking idiot still pays for media?
This literally always happens. Every time. Learn or be laughed at.
go break your toys kid
Theres our answer, then.
This needs to be shown in [email protected]
Don’t spread it until confirmed
It is confirmed: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TY9Z4zZ7vgVwLA0b7C
Judging by that, it doesn’t look like people will be losing access to the games they purchased. However they will have to access them via a different launcher from June 10th onward.
This is true but if they purchased it through Luna one would assume they did it because they don’t have a powerful enough PC to run it locally.
I guess they can migrate to Nvidia GeForce now or another cloud service and still use their purchase.
This is exactly what I meant by confirming it, it is quite different from what the original poster posted
Thwts extremely worrying.
Any time you deal with Amazon, you’re either getting fucked, fucking over someone else, or both. That’s their whole business model, taking advantage of people! Just don’t.
https://www.dualshockers.com/amazon-lunas-changes-has-players-panicking-but-they-dont-need-to/
While I wouldn’t have bought games for cloud gaming myself, some consumers likely bought games without other means of playing them and are now unable to make use of their purchased content.
I guess so? But that seems a bit like grasping at straws. They still have access to the games, unlike what the outrage-bait headline suggests.
And even in those cases, they could just switch to a rival service like GeForce Now, which still allows you to import third party libraries for streaming.
Is there a real source for this?
There is an official communication from them, I need to look for it, but yeah, it is real.
Edit: Found it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TY9Z4zZ7vgVwLA0b7C
So the games are not actually gone, people will just have to start them directly via EA, GOG or Ubisoft instead of Amazon’s storefront.
So this post is misinformation then
You just don’t buy from Amazon.