hedwards: There's a contractual obligation involved. They don't just get to take back the games, I haven't personally seen the contracts, but they certainly have a clause to that effect.
Funny, so there is a contractual obligation involved, that there won't be any legal dispute with them and the rights owners and there is a contractual obligation involved that they won't go under in the three year period... now that's interesting must be some really interesting contracts there.
Never said that something "will" happen in those three years, but just that because they mention them doesn't means that nothing will or that it's any more a "guarantee" than what you find in any other subscription agreement.
Gersen: Not really, they've been significantly more forthcoming about it than most companies are. They can't guarantee that their vendors are going to provide the same service in perpetuity hence the clause. As long as you keep your account safe it's nothing to worry about.
And once again how is it ANY DIFFERENT from Steam adding a clause saying that they can cancel your subscription anytime they want ? Something that is in Steam EULA since nearly the very beginning, something that is in all other digital distributor EULA. They never tried to hide it either.
Gersen: Which is illegal in the parts of the world that OnLive is currently targetting.
Which is what I said, but still those solutions exists. (And said solution are used by GoG for several games)
Gersen: Probably because you're being somewhat obtuse and spreading misinformation about the service.
What misinformation ?
That the way the service work, by its very nature, it's worse than the most draconian DRM out there, with no way, legal or not, to bypass it.
That if the service goes down you lose all the games you "bought" on it.
By curiosity which par of that is misinformation ?
You are the one you seem to think that because of the "three years" clause in their EULA it makes them magically better than all of the others digital distributors even though all those had similar clauses in the EULA for years.