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A comment on CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it. Parent comment

Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by falcolas on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:40PM (#41673462)
I'm afraid that the connotations around rent (namely monthly payments) would only encourage the worst publishers to only go further.
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by ronsor on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:45PM (#41673508)
No one is renting a game for $70/month.
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by Foobar8568 on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:33PM (#41674061)
Not sure of the cost of MMORPG, but at one stage they were like $12-$14, and Everquest even had a server that was lived for a couple of years, legend, where it was like $40/month, a bit pay-to-win server...I mean with a better CS support.
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by NikkiA on Friday September 27, 2024 @03:20PM (#41674522)
> but at one stage they were like $12-$14

they (the ones that are subscription) still are.

And most of them have micro-transactions on top of that as well. Some will give you a (very) limited number of micro-transaction currency-units per month.

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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by warkdarrior on Friday September 27, 2024 @01:54PM (#41673630)
Not yet!
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by rvnx on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:10PM (#41673839)
Absolutely! Markets evolve, see, for example, nobody was willing to pay on things like Siri, and now millions of folks are spending 25 USD/month on Siri+.

EDIT: sorry, just came from the future.

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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by yencabulator on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:04PM (#41675508)
$50 up front and $10/month...
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by strathmeyer on Saturday September 28, 2024 @10:31AM (#41680439)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season_pass_(video_games)
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by lotsofpulp on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:00PM (#41673705)
Sellers are smarter than that, they already go as far as they think buyers will let them. It is the buyers who need elucidation.
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Re:CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you... by diggan on Friday September 27, 2024 @02:05PM (#41673772)
If you solution involves getting the general population to do something or "be better" somehow, it's not a practical solution.
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