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EA shuts down Rock band on iOS, lets people still buy it though.
Wow, I try not to hate on EA blindly but that is shady as hell! Not only screwing over people who bought it but STILL let people buy it, knowing it's about to shut down.
Probably to do with licensing the songs.Why shut it down? I'm not sure on how the app works, but does it pull everything from online or something?
So now we see the real dark side of living in "you don't own the game, you license it from us for a fee" land. Nobody will give a shit because this is a phone game. If this kind of thing happened on consoles people would lose their fucking minds.
I expect a lot of hemmin and hawin about this somehow being a logical move and user should learn to deal with it. I also expect a lawsuit.
I'd have to assume they had this in the EULA. Otherwise they're in a precarious position legally.
How many songs did you get for 3 bucks or however much it was?
@PokeIkzai said:
Fair. Next.
Not sure if serious. If you are indeed serious, how is this fair? Ummm, people paid money for a game they thought that they were buying a game that they would be able to play as long as they owned an iOS device? Basically EA has told you that you are now licensing their game until they say that you are done playing it.
This is exactly why I am not buying into the DD future. GoG I feel pretty confident with, and Steam, still not sure about them, but they seem like a lot of people would not happy if their games would start disappearing.
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