![]() 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.
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