| 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. |
Though i do agree with you on most parts, but you are referring to an extreme case.
Very rarely do games (let alone games people care about) get taken down due to licensing issues or changes.
Sure it happens and you proved it happens now even without Streaming so what affects the Stadia with licensing will also affect other platforms all the same.
This isnt a Streaming flaw, this is a digital flaw which the gaming industry and community have accepted digital gaming a long time ago.
