This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.
oh god this reminds me of Japanese man who married Hatsune Miku in hologram form can no longer speak to his wife of four years.
“The doting husband has gained thousands of followers on Instagram by sharing insights into his life with Miku, but things took an unexpected turn during the pandemic when Gatebox announced it was discontinuing its service for Miku.”
this is why I have trust issues with proprietary software
you will own nothing and you will be happy.
You don’t own things anymore, you just lease them
I believe the founder and first queen of Carthage said that if we don’t learn to circumvent that, we deserve nothing more than we get. She went on to claim that nothing we have is truly ours.
Is it just me or was that Phoenician quite a bit ahead of her time?
And if you can’t own anything by paying, is game piracy even theft anymore?
Can any owner of this game tell me whether it is online only or not? Or what uses it has for an internet connection? Because back in mah dayTM© that’d be the kind of thing you’d download once and, even if the online service died, you’d still have a working program/game afterwards.
I bought a bunch of music on Google Play Music, forgot about it. Come back a year later and it’s all deleted because they shut the service down.
laughs in yo-ho-ho
Never buy from the cloud, only rent.
Your purchases didn’t migrate over to YouTube music?? I still have all the music I bought
You had a limited time window to manually do that. I didn’t get the memo.
Is this a Facebook game…?
You touch anything from Meta with a 10 foot pole, you deserve whatever comes your way.
Is this made in unity?
