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#Contra rebirth disc ps3

The World: The Game, GTI Club+: Rally Côte d'Azur (another Sumo conversion of yet another excellent arcade racing game) and The Simpsons Arcade Game, all delisted once their respective licenses had expired. Other notable disappearances include Scott Pilgrim vs. One of the most notable was OutRun Online Arcade, a well-received Sumo conversion of Sega's classic OutRun 2 that was pulled in 2011, just two years after release, when the publisher's deal with Ferrari expired. But there are plenty of digital-only licensed games that have utterly disappeared in a puff of digital smoke. Luckily for Transformers and PlatinumGames fans, Devastation was released on disc as well as digitally, so it's still possible to buy the game second hand. I'm not suggesting that they will - they may very well keep the servers open until the end of the time - but there is nothing to stop them from doing so.

#Contra rebirth disc ps3

If, for example, Sony decided at some far point in the future to delist all of the PS3 titles from PSN, they would be perfectly entitled to do so.

#Contra rebirth disc license

By buying a digital game, you are simply buying a license to play it - and the platform holder has the right to revoke that license at any time.

The PSN Terms of Service explicitly state this: 'When you purchase a Product you agree that you are purchasing a licence to use that Product and you do not take ownership of the Product.' Microsoft and Nintendo have similar terms. The fact is that you do not actually own games that you download. But even this exception may not apply forever. Players who have previously bought and downloaded such games can still download them again.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Marvel titles published by Activision have suffered a similar fate. Among them was Transformers: Devastation by renowned developer PlatinumGames, which had only been released two years previously. Last December, a slew of Transformers games were suddenly removed from Steam and PSN (and later from the Xbox Marketplace) with no warning from publisher Activision. It will be summarily pulled from digital storefronts - sometimes with little or no warning - and is unlikely to ever resurface, unless the publisher is willing to negotiate those licensing deals all over again. At some point, months or years from now, that licensing agreement will expire - at which point the publisher can no longer sell the game. A digital-only game based on licensed content is doomed to die right from the outset.