Have you guys heard of Reflexive Arcade?
A while back I was looking for some casual games for a disabled friend who can only play games with one hand. I came across Ricochet, your typical Arkanoid clone. Not a terribly great game but it suited his needs. He bought a few other games from their site since then, as well. Fast forward to today, he linked me to the site where they are currently displaying this message:

This means what you think it means. If you buy a game from them (Reflexive.com or any other GameCenterSolution affiliate) on July 30th and wait to activate it, you won't ever be able to play it. More importantly, those who already acquired a collection from them can't re-install if something goes wrong on their computer! (And it's not necessarily just Reflexive games, they distributed games from PopCap, BigFish etc.) Now, I understand, like myself, you may not be very hard pressed to care about this, considering the company and the particular games they make -but is it right they do this to their consumers just because they are super casual and don't know what a Steam is? I feel as we are progressing toward things like the need for online DRM authentication in single player experiences, issues like this can only become more prevalent. What happens when Ubisoft doesn't feel like authenticating my game sessions anymore?
Valued Customers,
As of June 30th, 2010, games will no longer be available for purchase on Reflexive.com.Please be sure to install and activate your purchases prior to July 31st, 2010.
Supposedly Reflexive said they want to focus on developing games, I'm not saying boycott, but who do they expect to buy it? Talk about biting the hand that feeds.. thoughts?
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