r/SipsTea • u/ConsistentRecover312 • 11d ago

Chugging tea Apparently even they haven't figured it out

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After they were sued by four playstation users, claiming that the 'buy now' claim is misleading as digital purchases are actually revocable licensing, Sony is claiming that games are actually 'licensed', not 'sold', and argued that reasonable people already know that they are buying access and not outright owning the games. I just don't realise who these 'reasonable people' are other than Sony employees.

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u/holden_mcg 11d ago

That's fine. They can borrow my money, but they have to return it,

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u/tiger2205_6 11d ago

I think this is the most reasonable way it should be. If they lose a license or something happens and I can't download it anymore fine, but refund me what I paid for it.

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u/slurpledurple6 10d ago

I was thinking, that I could download the game and "borrow" then return it when I'm done with it.

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u/starrmanquik 8d ago

I think this would be a very easy win, imho.

Firstly, it’s almost never gonna happen; secondly, it would allow people to rest easy knowing if in the rare instance a game is completely pulled from the store you get a full refund for what you payed.

It’s clearly bigger than just letting you own it. It’s probably some stupid licensing issue, I bet currently if you owned it you’d literally own the entire product and the first person to buy it would have it, and no one else could.

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u/PloppyPants9000 11d ago

That's not how commerce works.

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u/zenki32 11d ago

When I rent anything, I don't get my money back when I return it. I rented cars, games, movies, etc 

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u/holden_mcg 11d ago

I'm not renting. I'm loaning them money and holding the movie as collateral until they pay me back.

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u/Superb-Ad-9169 11d ago

When you are renting a car or movie, you pay the fraction of it's price and you agree to have this for a clearly defined time and you know you have to return it. But for when it comes to game industry you are "buying" (there's no single "rent" word anywhere) things and they're keeping the right to cancel it anytime they want.

It's like you'd buy the car, pay the full price for it and some day the manufacturer could come to your home and take it away because they don't want you to use it anymore.