No, you don’t own a license if you have physical media. This is a myth that’s totally unfounded and needs to die.
When you buy a physical book, you don’t have a license to read that book.
When you buy a physical movie, you don’t have a license to watch that movie.
When you buy a physical game, you don’t have a license to play the game.
In all cases you have a copy of the copywritten work that you can use under the copyright agreement, you can resell it, you can use it as many times as you like, they can’t take it away from you. This is all enshrined in various copyright protections throughout the years in every juristicion.
You own a physical production that is a copy of a copywritten work. It can’t be taken away.
Aren’t there games where the physical disc doesn’t have the entire game on it or won’t even run without a patch? Wouldn’t that effectively be the same thing if they decide to stop providing the patch?
No, you don’t own a license if you have physical media. This is a myth that’s totally unfounded and needs to die.
When you buy a physical book, you don’t have a license to read that book.
When you buy a physical movie, you don’t have a license to watch that movie.
When you buy a physical game, you don’t have a license to play the game.
In all cases you have a copy of the copywritten work that you can use under the copyright agreement, you can resell it, you can use it as many times as you like, they can’t take it away from you. This is all enshrined in various copyright protections throughout the years in every juristicion.
You own a physical production that is a copy of a copywritten work. It can’t be taken away.
Aren’t there games where the physical disc doesn’t have the entire game on it or won’t even run without a patch? Wouldn’t that effectively be the same thing if they decide to stop providing the patch?
The only one I can think of was the Spyro trilogy remaster, which had games 2 and 3 as downloads.
In any case I think there’s more chance of Valve going bust than Sony or Microsoft…