// You paid full price. They killed the servers. The game is gone.
// You didn't buy a game. You rented access to it. Without knowing.
Put the disc in, it worked. No internet required. No account. No day-one patch that tripled the file size. No season pass. No "live service." No artificial scarcity on cosmetics that cost nothing to duplicate. It just ran. Forever.
Always-online DRM. Account bans that wipe your library. Games delisted with no refund. Publishers shutting down servers for games less than five years old. DLC locked behind a second subscription. Features removed in patches you never asked for. The disc is decoration.
In 2024 alone, multiple publishers shut down online-only games leaving players with nothing. Purchased games. Gone. The industry normalized it quietly, one EULA at a time — and most people didn't notice until their library disappeared.
// There are thousands of free, open source games. Good ones. Games made by people who did it because they wanted to — not to hit a quarterly target. You don't need a subscription. You don't need an account. You don't need to wait for a sale.
We're not saying never spend money on games. We're saying you should get what you paid for — something you own, something that works without their servers, something that doesn't disappear when they decide it's no longer profitable. If buying isn't owning, then piracy isnt stealing. Play free. Play open. Keep your money.
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