this is what happened to amazon luna recently. I never bought games from this service and I'm on PC. Any games claimed that were part of amazon prime were always linked to the various services like GOG and Epic Games that Amazon Prime gaming partners with. But if you only owned a TV and were reliant on Cloud streaming for gaming, and you bought those games, they're gone now. Technically you still "own" them, but unless you're willing to shell out for a computer to play them on, which a person who only played cloud games wasn't wanting to do in the first place, in all practical sense, they lost games they paid for.
I saw something recently too that I guess Square Enix sold some "cloud" switch games basically as full Switch games at full Switch prices and now they are shutting them down, so you don't even have the game anymore.
Oh I mean I never bought that crap. I just saw something about it. You've in a lot of ways hit on my piracy rules. I generally don't pirate games because if the devs aren't worth my money they aren't worth my time either. If I'm unreasonably screwed in the deal or the availability is something stupid like I'm supposed to buy a second hand $500 cartridge or a subscription and nothing else, then the ship goes a sailing.
750 USD for a 'lifetime' pass that lasts until they go bankrupt?
Yeah exactly.
this is what happened to amazon luna recently. I never bought games from this service and I'm on PC. Any games claimed that were part of amazon prime were always linked to the various services like GOG and Epic Games that Amazon Prime gaming partners with. But if you only owned a TV and were reliant on Cloud streaming for gaming, and you bought those games, they're gone now. Technically you still "own" them, but unless you're willing to shell out for a computer to play them on, which a person who only played cloud games wasn't wanting to do in the first place, in all practical sense, they lost games they paid for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOT1HNVndb4
I saw something recently too that I guess Square Enix sold some "cloud" switch games basically as full Switch games at full Switch prices and now they are shutting them down, so you don't even have the game anymore.
They own a license to one (1) copy of the game. They exist on the internet, go get it.
Oh I mean I never bought that crap. I just saw something about it. You've in a lot of ways hit on my piracy rules. I generally don't pirate games because if the devs aren't worth my money they aren't worth my time either. If I'm unreasonably screwed in the deal or the availability is something stupid like I'm supposed to buy a second hand $500 cartridge or a subscription and nothing else, then the ship goes a sailing.