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Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world
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Something something digital ownership

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

It makes sense financially if the game is expected to have a big spike of sales initially, and after a while have very few sales, so the expected additional lifetime revenue is less than the cost difference between a temporary and perpetual license.