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Funimation To Shut Down Completely On April 2; Deleting Purchased Digital Copies (www.animeexplained.com)

submitted 9 months ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 55 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Buying a digital copy of something you cannot download is an oxymoron. It only makes sense if you subscribe to a service.

[-] lemontree@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So steam, basically? Less likely that they'll be shutting down anytime soon, but still.

Edit: people downvoting don't seem to understand how steam works

[-] Mereo@lemmy.ca 34 points 9 months ago

Not a good comparison. With Steam, you download the games to your computer. If Valve ever went out of business, they could unDRM the games, or you could crack them.

Either way, you download the games onto your computer. That's not the case with Funimation.

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

That's why it's better to buy from gog

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 3 points 9 months ago

Why? You also buy licenses from GOG, despite their and their shills' best efforts to make you believe otherwise.

[-] _sideffect@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

It's completely DRM free. You download the game and that's it, you can run it from your computer forever

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

The only difference with Steam is that you have to crack the game files, and Steam DRM is notably easy to bypass. Either way, once you have the files you have it.