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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)

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[–] dudinax@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

When you own the game you have the choice whether to back up the game and whether to keep a computer that can run it.

[–] rdri@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Both of those mean you have to own a physical thing. Store services are basically backups for cases when you stop owning a physical thing for a while.