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Physical unfitness?

In E376 Robert Frazer continues a line of discussion with a number of other readers, and, like any good keyboard warrior, I felt it was time to stick my oar in. My main line of disagreement is the combination in his mind of purchases from a store and subscriptions – and they’re not the same.

Publisher behaviour when it comes to licences we’ve outright purchased does need to change. Any game purchased outside of a subscription should remain in the owner’s library in perpetuity – or at least until that console generation has ended. Removing your access to older software is not acceptable. Even Apple, which has been in the limelight with regard to its App Store processes, lets you download apps you have purchased that are otherwise no longer available on the App Store. Providing, of course, the

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