Xen said:
sth88 said:
Xen said:
CDiablo said:
Same thing happens to any digital content if you get banned from Steam/Origin/PSN/Battle.Net. Im surprised how uninformed people are about "content licensing." |
The difference is... that's digital content.
However, since a game on XB1 is nothing but an install disc, installing a game tied to only one XBL account, once it is banned, all your physical copies are also useless... or so it seems right now.
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Steam has physical discs you can purchase, and once they are put in the PC they are required to be linked to your Steam account. If you are banned on Steam, you lose access to that game, even though you still have the disc and all the game data is stored on that disc. So no, it's not different.
Besides, I don't see why digital games should be held to a different standard than physical ones. Games are games, regardless of their distribution; whether you downloaded it or bought a disc, the content of the game is still stored locally, in your hard drive or on your disc. So it's either OK for a service to have this kind of provision in their ToS, or it's not. It doesn't matter if it's Steam or Microsoft who does it; either it's acceptable for both of them, or it's acceptable for neither of them.
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Because, y'know, they don't have to be installed and tied to an account to be useable? They have to be useable whenever, wherever. Like they've pretty much always have been. I didn't know steam sold physical copies and did this same bullshit with them, I admit that. But It's not OK on either. It's idiotic.
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Finally! Some consistency from someone! Thank you! You have no idea how refreshing it is to see this. People have been SO unwilling to criticize Steam for having some of the same policies that they are criticizing Microsoft for now; they've just been bending over backwards to make sure Steam doesn't take any flak. You and I are going to disagree on the standards we hold for digital vs. physical, but you've definitely earned my respect for being consistent in holding Steam and Microsoft to the same standard on how they handle physical discs.
