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Companies Taking Away Games
Cordova, TN; July 31, in the year of our Lord 2017--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is chronicling another problem with digital
downloadable video games. What is this problem? Something we
noticed recently when we tried to go back and play certain
games. What is it that we noticed? They no longer work. These
video game companies can make a digital download code with
little effort. We were going to do a video series on SimCity on
the Personal Computer. Electronic Arts would not let us play the
game anymore. That is pretty lame. XField Paintball 3 is a game
that expired the day after it was officially released. Not that
we wanted to play it anymore. Kinect Sports Rivals also expired
pretty quickly after the review came out. Thank you Microsoft.
Companies cannot expire a physical copy version of a video game.
In fact we go back and play older games on older systems all of
the time. We are finding that is becoming more and more of a
problem with digital downloads. Just another reason to dislike
digital downloadable codes compared to physical copy versions of
video games. I must admit I was pretty shocked about it. As
someone who has a partial heritage of Cherokee in his blood, I
immediately thought of the “Indian Giver” insult from the past.
I am not going to use it. I am just letting you know the thought
crossed my mind. Did that same thought cross your mind when you
first heard about this? I do not have the time to check on every
single digital downloadable game to find out how deep this
problem goes.
Another reason this bothers me is the FCC requires we disclose
when a video game company provides us a copy of a game. It makes
the video game companies look really generous. There is now a
serious problem with that. How many of these video game
companies that gave us digital downloads took them away at some
future date? In essence they did not give us a free copy of the
game. They gave us an extended rental. This is a whole lot less
than the full copy of the game. At this point I do not want a
digital download whenever there is a physical copy version
available. I knew many of these video game companies were slimy,
and shady. I did not realize how bad until I came across this
truth. This is a truth that I needed to share with you. How many
other gaming media outlets are checking on this? How many others
are reporting on it?
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming