Cabel Blacke
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These license conditions are actually an increase in our rights - before we were only licensed on a single computer, now it's three.
I'm glad you see it this way. I don't. To me, it is akin to leasing a car vs. buying and I don't lease cars. For example, I have a copy of Shadows Over Riva, that I purchased when the game came out (12 years ago?) that I recently popped in my CD-ROM and reinstalled, because I felt like replaying it. I also have hard copy versions of Planescape Torment, BG1 and 2, Deus Ex, Thief 1,2, and 3, Arx Fatalis, Gothic, and the list goes on and on. When I hit a slow period in new games, I pull one of these down off the shelf and reinstall. I'll play it for a while until the next game du jour comes out that interests me.
With the scenario Atari is offering, this "ownership" concept (even, if it is just a concept and not legal actuality) will be gone. I will now be leasing my games, instead of buying.
How is this a good thing?
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