Shiken said:
It is not that simple. When licensing is up or a game gets pulled, it is removed entirely for legal purposes. You are buying a license, and even your license as a consumer has a time limit. It is illegal for Stadia to allow you to stream a game that the license is expured for, because you are paying for the right to use that same license. I will give you two example of how this is already seen in digital sales. Scott Pilgrim vs The World was taken down to license expiration. If you previously bought the game, you still cannot redownload that game because the store cannot legally allow you to download the software even of you already owned your own digital license. The other is a game called Spy Mouse for mobile devices a few years back. When EA took the game down, you could not redownload the game even of you bought it for reasons above. I bought this game, it is on my game list, I cannot download it because of how digital licensing works. In both of these cases, if the game was downloaded to your device already, you still have it. With Stadia you are streaming, and are SOL. If you try to claim otherwise you either have no clue how licensing works or you are just lying to yourself. |
I'm pretty sure Scott Pilgrim is still available for re-download on PS3. It's a pain to check that download list, but I'm sure I've seen it in there recently when scrolling through.
Edit
Yes, I just painstakingly scrolled through 1467 items in the horrible PS3 download list to get to Scott Pilgrim and the game, the unlock key and the dlc are all still there, along with several other de-listed games like DuckTales Remastered and Castle of Illusion (both the remake and original game which was a pre-order bonus). Google may or may not offer the same deal with streaming, I don't have any information on their policy regarding this, but it's not impossible that as long as Stadia remains, they could stream de-listed games that you already bought.
Last edited by Landale_Star - on 13 November 2019
