![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Full headline: "Another reminder that your digital library isn't forever: Oxenfree will be completely removed from Itch.io next month"
"The Netflix-owned studio has already delisted the game from the site."
By that, it means the game will be removed for everyone, including people who paid cash money for it already, not just that it won't be available for future purchase by anyone else (which is the "usual" meaning for "delisted"). Sure, you can download the game before it's removed entirely, but if you fail to do that for any reason, you are apparently shit outta luck.
More Glorious Digital Future™ bullshit, in other words. I wonder if itch.io will refund everyone who bought the game for the full purchase price. No mention of the word "refund" in the article at all, but that doesn't mean it won't become a thing in the near future, if enough fucked over customers raise a big enough shitstorm over it.
I would say remind me to never buy anything from itch.io, but it's not like I've ever done that in the past. I'm certainly not going to start doing that in the future, after this.
Also sounds like Night School Studio is just yet another developer that sold out to a yet another big company (Netflix, in this case) that inexorably turned said developer and said developer's IP into a steaming shitpile, because of course they did.
As for Oxenfree itself, while I do "own" it on Steam, the last time I tried to play it, I had dealbreaker problems with it.
"The Netflix-owned studio has already delisted the game from the site."
By that, it means the game will be removed for everyone, including people who paid cash money for it already, not just that it won't be available for future purchase by anyone else (which is the "usual" meaning for "delisted"). Sure, you can download the game before it's removed entirely, but if you fail to do that for any reason, you are apparently shit outta luck.
More Glorious Digital Future™ bullshit, in other words. I wonder if itch.io will refund everyone who bought the game for the full purchase price. No mention of the word "refund" in the article at all, but that doesn't mean it won't become a thing in the near future, if enough fucked over customers raise a big enough shitstorm over it.
I would say remind me to never buy anything from itch.io, but it's not like I've ever done that in the past. I'm certainly not going to start doing that in the future, after this.
Also sounds like Night School Studio is just yet another developer that sold out to a yet another big company (Netflix, in this case) that inexorably turned said developer and said developer's IP into a steaming shitpile, because of course they did.
As for Oxenfree itself, while I do "own" it on Steam, the last time I tried to play it, I had dealbreaker problems with it.
no subject
Date: 2024-09-10 11:44 pm (UTC)From:I have always considered a digital purchase as nothing more than a long-term rental. If I want to own something, I buy it physically.
That said, I have probably had more physical discs become useless over time either due to degradation or loss than I've lost access to stuff I actually "bought" digitally, but that's nobody's fault but my own. And that's not to mention the countless games I've owned on physical media but are effectively unplayable without access to (a) a 5.25" floppy drive, and (b) an ancient DOS system.
Well, except for that one physical game I bought that was released as unplayable garbage until it's patched, but with copy protection that breaks whenever I try to apply the official patch, forcing me to literally pirate my own game in order to play it. Fuck that game.