this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2024
820 points (99.5% liked)

Games

32314 readers
701 users here now

Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.

Weekly Threads:

What Are You Playing?

The Weekly Discussion Topic

Rules:

  1. Submissions have to be related to games

  2. No bigotry or harassment, be civil

  3. No excessive self-promotion

  4. Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts

  5. Mark Spoilers and NSFW

  6. No linking to piracy

More information about the community rules can be found here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
820
California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
78 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

If you don't retain some kind of actual ownership, they will not be allowed to use terms like "buy" or "purchase" on the store page button. I hope there aren't huge holes in this that allow bad actors to get around it, but I certainly loathe the fact that there's no real way to buy a movie or TV show digitally. Not really.

EDIT: On re-reading it, there may be huge holes in it. Like if they just "clearly tell you" how little you're getting when you buy it, they can still say "buy" and "purchase".

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do they need "buy" or "purchase"? All they need is "pay", and nobody would notice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"get" or "acquire" or "add to collection" or "snag".. or any other vomit inducing roundabout corporate speak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would still imagine that has a very different psychological effect. Nobody wants to click a "pay"-button...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Shopping cart icon, and "checkout"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

People will click whatever's stopping them from the dopamine hit of adding a game they're probably not going to play to their library.

It'd be even harder to stop someone who actually WANTS to play the game they're paying for! Lol