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Still does because they should just continue to wait until it’s there before buying.


You bought a Bethesda game before a community patch was available.

They knew what they were doing.





“grants a license” not “grants ownership”

You’re renting it until Steam decides to revoke it. The article talks about these not being owning but you have to know going into it that you’re not buying the product, you’re buying a seat to use the product. That’s renting. You’re paying for access.


If you read the TOS then you’d see you’re renting the game. Steam can revoke your access.

Hence how it’s not owned, you’re paying for a period of use.



If you want to get into a debate of copying vs stealing then go ahead but it has nothing to do with the line about “it’s not stealing if you were renting it”


When you don’t pay for rent is it stealing?

When you rent something and take it over, is it stealing?

Highlighting the problems with renting something (that it can be taken away) doesn’t change that. And to claim you’re free to steal anything you rent because it’s not really stealing doesn’t give any merit, it just makes you look like a bitch.

You can assume all closed source software is a rental because you have no idea when it will stop working. The idea that you can reverse engineer it while admirable isn’t realistic for 99% of the population, if it were then there wouldn’t be a reason to have it be closed source.


It’s such a dumb line, own up to stealing like a badass instead of pussyfooting around the term.










Automa was the sequel. If you see replicant with a later date it’s the remaster.



Why would a game owned by China want full control of a PC?

Maybe cheating is the excuse because selfhosting and server mods just banning cheaters would work if they actually cared about cheating.








As I knew it, it was about releasing binaries/selfhostability not source code.



It’s insane that this isn’t a requirement for shutting down/delisting a game.


If it makes you feel better the Horse Armour killed the series as they only ever released one game after it.




I can assume Microsoft isn’t so incompetent that they don’t have reports and metrics relevant to their products.




EA gives their studios the ability to decide their own revenue models.

This change likely came because they weren’t as profitable as predicted so they had targets to make up for.


Consumer hardware has always been an R&D recoup for the business sector.