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[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s worh noting that the OLD version still remain “free” if you purchased the old one: that’s less about Square but Valve.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But what if the game was an update instead? The law does not cover this situation. Then owner of the original game could no longer access it, and only get the new version.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

On Steam you can pick your version of choice among the various update.

If it's some sort of forced update in which the game is made to not work with previous versions (it require special DRM or online activation by the third party): that's more another issue (planned obsolescence) that's being addressed with the Stop Killing Games campaign.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Usually you can't pick older versions of the game. There are cases when developers leave an older build of the game available in the Experimental tab. But that is not always the case and the developer or publisher does not have to do it. It's not required.