TL:DW Steam has now changed its language from buy game to A purchase of a digital product grants a licence to the product on steam. This may also be non compliant with the new regulation as it still uses the word purchase. Also GOG used this opportunity to let you know their games come with an installer that they cannot take away from you.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 9•1 hour ago
The law didn’t change Steam. It was always like that. Steam just added a note to clarify this. Nothing has changed really.
- bad_news ( @bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net ) 2•42 minutes ago
I am of the mind with anything digital – if you didn’t pirate it, you don’t own it
- muhyb ( @muhyb@programming.dev ) 11•2 hours ago
It was always licenses on Steam, nothing changed in their ToS. Though there are some DRM-free games on Steam, even free from Steam-DRM.
- brsrklf ( @brsrklf@jlai.lu ) 3•2 hours ago
It was technically always licenses for every video game ever commercialised. It’s just that a publisher has no practical way to control what happens to someone’s floppy/optical disc/cartridge/whatever physical media.
- narc0tic_bird ( @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ) 12•3 hours ago
Not really, just some wording…?
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) 4•1 hour ago
The linked video channel “Bellular News” is known for their clickbait titles.