I think there were multiple mod teams working on their own ideas for half life 3 but I’ve given up looking up their progress.

Yep, a long while ago.

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-gives-black-mesa-permission-to-be-a-commercial-product

Valve has been pretty chill about letting people make fan games based on their IP as long as they ask Papa Gaben first.

As far as I know, more or less yes

The problem is with DRM owning a physical copy of a recent game doesn’t mean squat. It also wasn’t a gap for older generations since CDs were a terrible medium to store and verify games since they scratch easy.

The fight will always be you want to own the thing you buy, and companies will want to stop people who didn’t buy it from using it. This fight has been going on since the original DOOM was freely passed around.

I still wanted to try it out and see if it’s just stupid fun or just plain garbage. Now I can find out for myself without spending hard earned money that I can spend on other disappointing things instead!

In case I misunderstood, yes, you can buy them on the platform and then you own it the same way as any other platform. You can get a 20% discount on games that are still in game pass too.

Epic games says I own a game but it’s the same where I don’t actually own it, I just own a license to download the game from their servers. Pretty sure it’s the same on PSN, too

Maybe I misunderstood the original question

Isn’t that how it works on every platform though?

Yeah but the old ssd won’t click

Valheim turned my group off when we accidentally wandered into a biome we weren’t ready for (and didn’t know) and were all one shot by those stupid mosquitos on the opposite side of the map from our camp and couldn’t get our stuff back. We had issues like that before but could always just barely recover our stuff. But those damned mosquitos? Nah.

But if Hello Games can take care of balance issues like that, I’m definitely willing to take a chance.