Quoting: Purple Library GuySo they say, yes. That doesn't necessarily mean it would stand up in court, so they often prefer not to push it too hard.

They don't push it too hard because it would be terrible publicity. People only pay current prices because they *think* it's a true purchase, and they think that because storefronts largely treat it as such in practice, in order to maintain that status quo.

But if that tacit agreement broke down and it came to the courts, I don't see that going well. Have they done anything about revoked "permanent access" to movies on streaming platforms?

Maybe you have more hope for the courts than I do. But my point was that if even the most basic right to access anything at all you paid for is in question, and sadly it is, then "an update broke the game on my Linux and this is bad because, legally, I paid for it" is unlikely to have any impact, and certainly not from the legal angle, because it's a strictly weaker argument.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumYou have been legally prevented from using a product you have paid for with updates which intentionally block your usage, this is no fault of your own and thus you should demand a refund until you get one.

The problem is that the product that you purchased is a licence to download and execute a piece of software, at the forbearance of the seller.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement/ [External Link]

"Content and Services are licensed, not sold" and your "license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services".

You don't own the piece of software itself. There is nothing, legally, preventing them from utterly revoking your access at any time and for any or no reason, let alone making any changes to it they wish, regardless of their effects on you.

:-|

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Quoting: grigitime is relative to how old you are, so our perception of time speeds up as we age

When you are two years old, the last year accounts for 50% of your life.
When you are, say, 40yo, it accounts for 2.5%.
Seen that way, it makes a lot of sense :-)

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Quoting: PyreticEven bad games are worth preserving.

Sure.

In that case, I don't think anyone said it was intrinsically _bad_, just that it lacked something special to stand out from the crowd.

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Quoting: GuestI think those are game engine remasters, while this one is the actual game. I could be mistaken though.

They're remasters in the sense that they are based on the actual, original source code for D1 and D2, which were released long ago (1997 for D1).

So now all Descent games are open-source.

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Quoting: GuestDon't mean to be rude, but only Decent3? What about 2 and 1!?! I can't play them out of order!!!

They already have fantastic open-source ports.

https://www.descent2.de/ [External Link]
https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ [External Link]

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