- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- gaming@beehaw.org
- technology@beehaw.org
The relevant section is blunt. “The Software is licensed to you, not sold,” the EULA states. “You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”
The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony’s EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.


game studios will fire the devs after the game is done and then tell the players they should buy the deluxe edition for a hundred bucks to play a week early but you need to be always online and don’t own the game.
Great plan, but I’d bet the ‘lobbyists’ have gotten to the first