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Specifically, that you aren’t buying the content and you don’t own it.
At least, not unless a permanent, offline-enabled copy of said content is made available.
How many of your games do you actually own? California is taking action to make that clearer.
In that case, the new law won’t apply.
For everyone else, it will.
If that’s merely a digital license to play a game, then so be it.
It’s not just games that will be affected, any content without a permanently available offline version will be covered.
Both Sony and Ubisoft have made headlines in recent times in this vein.
I want rules like this to be wider spread.
Consumers deserve to be well-informed.
Ubisoft has recently found itself in the headlines for killing all access to The Crew, a game people though they were ‘buying.’ Subsequent games in the series will now get an offline mode.
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