Just to save you a click and a minute... the headline is misleading. They're talking about certain games on the Luna cloud service (whatever that is), NOT your Kindle library or anything else.
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They knocked off kurzgesagt's style and made it look so clickbaity. So gross.
I'll defend Infographics here. These guys do a great job with their content IMO. Yes, the titles and thumbnails are always kinda cringe but they have been putting out good stuff consistently for years and do so without AI. They always get shit for their titles but the content itself is way better than what you'd expect usually.
Interesting to note. I saw they were ripping off the kurzgesagt style and blocked the channel immediately. If they are legit I may check them out.
That's good to know that they aren't just using AI to mimic Kurzgesagt and that their content is legit. Thanks.
I might give them a try but I really can't stand clickbait titles and thumbnails to the point I just disregard them outright in a futile effort to discourage such behaviour.
Yeah playing the clickbait game is one thing, but they're outright hoping to trick people into thinking they're another channel. It's the only reason I clicked through (and immediately backed out)
There has to come a point with this shit where you just roll your eyes and blame the people who were dumb enough to invest in this shit, again.
Hell, this isnt even the first time Amazon has taken away games you purchased on Amazon.
Yup. I point anyone interested to slsk. I share 7000 movies on there, couple hundred series, 400k songs. Nzb and newshosting is also very nice.
I'll never buy another digital item like this unless I'm desperate.
Yep. I've had so many digital CDs and game downloads I've bought on Amazon (not recently, long time ago), and amazon basically went "Welp, we're not carrying this shit anymore, fuck you its gone" so all the games I paid for, gone and can no longer access.
All the music I paid for, gone and can no longer access.
Digital downloads are a scam, digital goods are not owned goods as long as you need to have someone elses server be accessed in the process.
GOG.
Offline download of the installer. Its yours.
I have a ton of stuff on my gog account also, makes it easy to install on bazzite
Any tldr? I hate watching a video of something that, probably, can be summarized in a single fucking paragraph.
I'm also not always able to watch videos compared to just reading an article
not to mention a video with such an offensive thumbnail
On June 10th any game purchases people made through Amazon's Luna service will be removed, with no refunds. On June 3rd they're ending the "bring your own library" feature where you could link to certain outside accounts (GOG, etc.) and get those to stream on Luna.
There's more about Buy button shenanigans and digital ownership, but that's the part the headline refers to.
So people have "90 days" to what? Play the games? Before they disappear?
To grab your save data. The purchased games themselves disappear on June 10th. There will still be a selection of games to stream (Game Pass/Xcloud style) after that date, but you have to wonder how long that'll last.
Say what you will about Stadia, but at least Google gave everyone full refunds when that shut down.
Yup, and in some cases where applicable they also gave you the keys to specific publisher libraries, like I got Assassin's Creed Origins and Odyssey added to my Uplay account with my saves intact right before Stadia shut down.
You can hate Google for lots of things, but when it comes to Stadia they handled it right.
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I agree. YouTube thumbnail is absolute clickbait cancer, now with AI to make it more abhorrent
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and people wonder how steam does so well.
Steam has the exact same setup, you don't own anything there either. It is all perpetual limited licenses. The only difference is that Steam has so far kept up the illusion of ownership.
This should be legally disallowed, "Buy" means ownership.
You are both correct. I'll usually double buy my favourites. One of steam early on, especially for Linux compatibility ease, then on gog years later on sale.
I think as long as everyone acts in good faith, it's not an issue.
If you truly did own your games on Steam, then you might have legal grounds to sue over something as silly as server downtime.
Furthermore, if you outright threatened Valve staff or something, ownership would mean they would be unable to ban your account.
I'm not claiming this as fact and I could be wrong but not even GOG let's you 'buy' games; just games without DRM?
Having games on your disk without DRM. That IS ownership. There are ways for Steam to make it so customers own games, but it is not in their best interest to do so.
Valve is not very different from any other company. The only difference is that since Valve is privately owned they can afford to make long-term plans, unlike publicly traded companies which have a fiduciary responsibility to chase profits every quarter.
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Scamazon doing Scamazon things? Don't say it be like it do!
Not mine. I've got my library locally.
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