The reason people buy from steam though and develop for them though is because of their service.
Thor from pirate software mentions that even as a developer there are good reasons for them to use steam.
Even just the cloud saves and such is awesome
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Steam doesnt make you pay for subscription fee and theres no expiry date for those games, so it's fine I think?
It's still something granted to you at all times, you don't own it. If a fart gets stuck in their asses they can change the grant. It's why actually owning is something desirable.
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In the meantime Microsoft updates their user agreement requiring you to arbitrate and to pay the arbitration fees. Fuck Microsoft.
Doesn't sound like it'll be legal for long. There's only so much they're allowed to do in a click through contract.
Inequality of bargaining power has legal consequences and may lead to invalidation or adjustment of the contract source
Unless we get a new Supreme Court ruling, nothing will fundamentally change. Lower courts can come up with their own reasonings to invalidate a contract but if a company appeals then it isn't looking so hot.
I hope we don't get expiration dates now...