• jet@hackertalks.com
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    6 months ago

    A lot of steam games that say require a third party login, actually work just fine without the login. The login is available for some optional extra, cloud saves, the social aspect etc The game still works. The only way to really tell is to buy the game and play it and see if it works or it doesn’t. So the behavior of the game becomes the de facto contract. Especially because steam allows for no questions asks refunds with less than 2 hours of gameplay. So in those two hours you get to figure out what the actual experience is.

    Changing the lived experience substantially 3 months after release is the issue here. I know it’s been resolved by Sony backing down. So we’re talking academically.

    • billbasher@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Yeah the lived experience was what I was talking about with the shadiness of how it was done.

      I hadn’t heard about games working when they require an external login. Could that be only relevant for certain features and not the main game though I wonder