No, it's not. It's different. What we have here isn't the equivalent of a Netflix membership, it's the equivalent of buying a DVD that has a time bomb implanted in it. Worse than that, really. You're paying full price, they're claiming that they're selling you a game, and you're not. None of those things go together. It is semantics, yes, but it's more than that - it's cost and rights and property.



I disagree with this so strongly it's hard for me to put it into words. Would you be okay with not owning anything? With everything being on lease to you? Your house, your car, your books, your furniture, your TV, your stereo, everything? All capable of being taken back at any given point? With being beholden to the whim of some corporation which sees you as a couple dollar signs? With having lived and worked and paid for thirty years and yet having nothing to show for it in terms of goods, ownership, equity, whatever? If not for any of those things, why for games? Make no mistake, this erosion of ownership is fucking you and making the megacorps fatter, and you're saying you don't care. This boggles my poor mind.



It absolutely will. Imagine if no one could read books older than twenty-five years, and no one could watch movies older than ten, and no one could listen to music older than fifteen. Would that be the death of literature, cinema, or music? It sure as fuck would, and we would all be a lot worse off for it.