Not being able to download the game in a future is not the same to losing access to the game. You can keep a backup of the installer and you're able to install and play the game whenever you want. This is not different than any physical good: the store is not responsible of giving you extra copies if you lose what you bought.
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It gives me an error when I try to open that page, but if this is about that new California law that Ross Scott was talking about the other day it seems a bit up in the air how exactly this is going to actually affect the current situation, also it's just California, it won't affect the rest of the USA let alone the whole world.
Also from what I heard this was about that debacle when Sony decided to stop providing downloads for people that had bought movies through PSN, it's older than the discontinuation of The Crew.
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You don't buy the license, it's more of a "rent license".
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In the end a small wording will change.
That's it.
People will still let the big companies do their thing and not boycott them till something really change.
So it will influence only the dumbest users because the smarter ones known before that they "buy" only a licence and not the game/program/movie itself.
Not worth to discuss about it.
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AB-2426 Consumer protection: false advertising: digital goods.
In effect in 2025.
This could be huge and - regarding our hobby - requires every game shop to change their wordings.
To summarize: This means "...that shop operators will have to point out in future that digitally purchased media, such as films, books or even video games, cannot actually be ‘bought’. The difference to actual ‘purchases’ is that the buyers do not actually own these media and their access to them can theoretically be withdrawn at any time."
"In any case, the law makes it clear that words such as ‘purchase’ or ‘buy’ can be categorised as misleading. Instead, it must be clearly stated that purchasers only acquire a single licence."
One of the use cases that lead to this law was the "The Crew" disaster by Ubisoft :D
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