"Games as a service" is fraud.
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中文导读
Accursed Farms 的 Ross Scott 耗时 76 分钟深度剖析为什么将游戏作为“服务”（GaaS）售卖涉嫌欺诈消费者。他从法律层面论证游戏应属于商品，系统探讨了数字所有权、计划性报废以及数字文化遗产保护等核心议题。
为什么 HN 推它
讲清“游戏停服即死”为何侵害玩家权益的集大成之作，“Stop Killing Games”维权倡议以及讨论数字游戏下架时的必看参考。
「先去把这个视频看完，你就能立刻跟上我们在讨论的所有核心背景。」HN 网友原话：Just watch this video so that you get up to speed with what we are talking about
英文原摘要（HackerTube / Claude 整理）
Ross Scott of Accursed Farms makes a 76-minute argument that selling video games as a service is a form of consumer fraud. He lays out legal arguments that games are goods, covers ownership and programmed obsolescence, and discusses game preservation.
It is the go-to explanation of why games that die when servers shut down harm consumers, and it is repeatedly cited in Stop Killing Games and game-delisting threads.
HN 上的提及
there are legal arguments [1] to be made that Steam's games are goods, not services
If you have an hour, I'd highly recommend giving this a watch.
Here's a great overview/rant on this topic
Ross from Accursed Farms has some great videos
Ross Scott covers it quite well