Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn’t implied for any game. They don’t need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.
Hey that game you’ve been playing all this time, them purchases you’ve made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!
It is implied: most people do expect to keep a game if they buy it. There’s no expectation to keep an arcade machine after inserting coins. Everyone who paid for extra lives or whatever powerups should have done so with a clear expectation that the online game that they haven’t purchased will die eventually. Nobody is being duped or betrayed.
Giving it out for free would be nice and probably wouldn’t cost them too much, but it’s also unreasonable to demand something that was never promised. Damn, I can’t believe I’m defending some free-to-play pay-to-win microtransaction online service hell game, but I guess even they can do something rightnot wrong every now and then.
Unless you are buying DRM-free, ownership isn’t implied for any game. They don’t need the money to make the game playable offline, that work has already been done, charging for it is just trying to get one last cashout.
Hey that game you’ve been playing all this time, them purchases you’ve made, well if you want to keep playing, you have to pay us!
It is implied: most people do expect to keep a game if they buy it. There’s no expectation to keep an arcade machine after inserting coins. Everyone who paid for extra lives or whatever powerups should have done so with a clear expectation that the online game that they haven’t purchased will die eventually. Nobody is being duped or betrayed.
Giving it out for free would be nice and probably wouldn’t cost them too much, but it’s also unreasonable to demand something that was never promised. Damn, I can’t believe I’m defending some free-to-play pay-to-win microtransaction online service hell game, but I guess even they can do something
rightnot wrong every now and then.