<story><title>Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1</title><url>https://mp1st.com/news/report-assassins-creed-liberation-delisted-to-be-unplayable-even-to-owners-starting-september-1-on-steam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shadonototra</author><text>France tried &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-09-19-french-court-rules-countrys-steam-users-can-resell-their-games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-09-19-french-cou...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then steam said you don&amp;#x27;t own the games they are selling to you&lt;p&gt;So you buy games that you don&amp;#x27;t really own with a 30% tax on the developer&amp;#x27;s paycheck on top of his local taxes, thanks Valve!</text></item><item><author>bnj</author><text>If platform licensing arrangements don’t protect customers from losing access to purchases, they should be forced to advertise them as rentals or leases and not something the consumer is buying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eikenberry</author><text>Valve is obviously right. You don&amp;#x27;t own any games sold to you. You don&amp;#x27;t own any commercial, proprietary software sold to you. On only have ever been a license holder. You own that license but are restricted by the license. IE. the same thing that keeps from from making copies and selling them is used to let them shut down the required servers whenever it stops being profitable.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t like this then stop using proprietary software.</text></comment>
<story><title>Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1</title><url>https://mp1st.com/news/report-assassins-creed-liberation-delisted-to-be-unplayable-even-to-owners-starting-september-1-on-steam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Shadonototra</author><text>France tried &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-09-19-french-court-rules-countrys-steam-users-can-resell-their-games&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gamesindustry.biz&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;2019-09-19-french-cou...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then steam said you don&amp;#x27;t own the games they are selling to you&lt;p&gt;So you buy games that you don&amp;#x27;t really own with a 30% tax on the developer&amp;#x27;s paycheck on top of his local taxes, thanks Valve!</text></item><item><author>bnj</author><text>If platform licensing arrangements don’t protect customers from losing access to purchases, they should be forced to advertise them as rentals or leases and not something the consumer is buying.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>convolvatron</author><text>its really puzzling how a technology so perfect for lowering cost of entry and promoting disintermediation has done the exact opposite.</text></comment>