Do you really "own" the games you download from digital stores like Steam, the Playstation Store, and so forth? GP Editor Marcus Estrada examines the conditions that every user agrees to when buying digital games and discusses what they should know about it.
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
You don't own the games you buy in a brick and mortar either.
All we are (and have ever done technically) buying is the right to use/play the game.
I would rather pay less with Digital Distribution and keep a game forever on my hdd than pay more, play the game and pawn it back for some store credit.
When it comes down to it we will never own digital distribution purchases in the console market until they create a way for you to transfer/backup your download off of the main system. as it stands right now if you change out your hard drive in a console and the provider just so happen to pull a game or piece of media off of their servers then you not only lose your money you loose your game as well.
DD is just a way for providers to say give me your money and ill let you borrow the game..cuz eventually you'l get tired of playing it or move on to another game and delete it off your drive to get more space and we will have your money and you'll have nothing.
while if your buying hard media, all you need is a working console and the disc.