Sony is erasing over 550 movies from PlayStation libraries without offering a single refund. If clicking "Buy" only grants access until a corporate licensing deal expires, the service is fundamentally broken.
Valve have a long history of ensuring that games purchased are still downloadable for customers who purchased them even after publishers have pulled their game off the store, or of providing refunds.
Sony has done neither and that’s a core part of the problem.
Part of this is Valve’s agreements with the publishers.
Sony could easily do this but they’re poisoned by the music and movie industries.
Yeah for all the shit steam gets, I bought that now de-listed Deadpool game like, however many years ago when it first came out (it was okay thanks for asking) and recently started a family sharing thing with my partner on steam, who was surprised to see that not only did I own it, but she could play it through steam’s family share. Are they perfect? Hell no, but is Gabe right about this? Hell yes.
I bought a game and similarly forgot about it for years, and when I finally got around to playing it there was no discussion board. Come to find out the game was completely delisted, felt like I was in a ghost town, but it was still functional!
I’ve got a few like that too. Apparently The Last Remnant got a remaster which for some reason didn’t get a PC release. despite the original being on PC. That sucked, but whatever. Then they removed the original from Steam.
For now. After the stunts Sony pulled I wouldn’t trust them at all. Imagine if Steam silently removed even some tools or soundtracks you purchased but never listened to? Instantly all the trust is completely gone. Even if a game is never deleted, it feels like a threat, because it is
Valve have a long history of ensuring that games purchased are still downloadable for customers who purchased them even after publishers have pulled their game off the store, or of providing refunds.
Sony has done neither and that’s a core part of the problem.
Part of this is Valve’s agreements with the publishers.
Sony could easily do this but they’re poisoned by the music and movie industries.
Yeah for all the shit steam gets, I bought that now de-listed Deadpool game like, however many years ago when it first came out (it was okay thanks for asking) and recently started a family sharing thing with my partner on steam, who was surprised to see that not only did I own it, but she could play it through steam’s family share. Are they perfect? Hell no, but is Gabe right about this? Hell yes.
I bought a game and similarly forgot about it for years, and when I finally got around to playing it there was no discussion board. Come to find out the game was completely delisted, felt like I was in a ghost town, but it was still functional!
I’ve got a few like that too. Apparently The Last Remnant got a remaster which for some reason didn’t get a PC release. despite the original being on PC. That sucked, but whatever. Then they removed the original from Steam.
Fuck you, Square.
You can do the same with deadpool on Xbox and PlayStation. It’s delisted there, but if you bought it you can re-download whenever you want.
For now. After the stunts Sony pulled I wouldn’t trust them at all. Imagine if Steam silently removed even some tools or soundtracks you purchased but never listened to? Instantly all the trust is completely gone. Even if a game is never deleted, it feels like a threat, because it is
Sony let you re-download de-listed games.
Their refund system is unacceptable though.
until they don’t
why would you trust Sony with anything?
I don’t trust Sony, I’m just stating the facts.
the entire point is Sony can’t be trusted to keep any of this in the future given their current behavior
the facts of their current policies mean nothing
But Sony didn’t break any trust here, did they? They’ve never said they will keep releasing physical discs forever.
They’ve done nothing to think anything would change in regards to digital games.
they just removed digital purchases from owners machines, then made games digital only
be stupid on your own time
As far as I know, Sony has the same history for games. Valve does not sell movies and TV.
Valve technically sell at least one movie
I suppose that’s technically true