@Balosi The license for your physical copy can absolutely be taken away. Just because you have bought a physical copy does NOT mean that your license to play the game can't be revoked. You're free to do whatever you'd like with the physical items, as far as the actual software, you have no ownership and hold no rights towards it.
Anyone saying this won't change much really underestimate the amount of people who genuinely believe they own a digital game and have the right to always play it forever just because they paid for it. The same goes for physical copies of a game though. No I e actually owns the game. They just own the physical disk, and a license to play the game on the disk. People have very little understanding of what they actually own vs what they simply pay to have a license for when it comes to video games.
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Re: Newly Signed Law May Restrict Sony's Use of Terms Like 'Buy' or 'Purchase' for Digital Games
@Balosi The license for your physical copy can absolutely be taken away. Just because you have bought a physical copy does NOT mean that your license to play the game can't be revoked. You're free to do whatever you'd like with the physical items, as far as the actual software, you have no ownership and hold no rights towards it.
Re: Newly Signed Law May Restrict Sony's Use of Terms Like 'Buy' or 'Purchase' for Digital Games
Anyone saying this won't change much really underestimate the amount of people who genuinely believe they own a digital game and have the right to always play it forever just because they paid for it. The same goes for physical copies of a game though. No I e actually owns the game. They just own the physical disk, and a license to play the game on the disk. People have very little understanding of what they actually own vs what they simply pay to have a license for when it comes to video games.