Comment by jolmg
4 days ago
Tangential, but a few days ago I started some Steam games I hadn't played in some years. I was surprised to be met with updated user agreements, which I had to agree to if I wanted to play the games I bought years ago. These were all single-player games.
> If you can't hold it, you don't own it.
Didn't some game consoles require online connectivity to play even games in physical media?[1]
It's possible for a game disc to require connecting online and forcing updates or even just updated licensing agreements.
Correct bright line might be to be able to permanently use it without online connectivity.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSupport/comments/1682s60/commen...
> So just to be clear, most games now are not actually on the disc. Most discs just contain a license that tells the store it's okay to download this game. It is Very rare that you can just put in a disc and play these days regardless of if it is on Playstation or xbox but it does still happen.
You don't even remotely own Steam games. Their shitty launcher has to open to let your game run since it checks DRM, and it'll force updates (see gta4). You also can't transfer your license, so no second hand games.