22cans would like to share important news regarding our games, Godus and Godus Wars. Regrettably, due to an upcoming technical change to Amazon Web Services, affecting our ability to serve necessary game files to new users, these titles are to be withdrawn from the Steam store. Please be assured that existing players can continue to enjoy these games without interruption.
It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.
They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:
The game checks whether you’re a new user and if so downloads something from S3.
The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.
If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.
Yet another example of why DRM is bad for users.
I’m not disagreeing but it says people who already own it will be able to keep playing it.
It says they can’t serve files to new users anymore. What if you are an old user and need to download those files again because you uninstalled the game.
They also say that new users need to download things from S3, this could mean two things:
The game checks whether you’re a new user and if so downloads something from S3.
The game downloads something from S3 on the first run.
If 1, then they have a server to list known users, how long until that server gets dropped? If 2 users who uninstall the game and reinstall it again will not be able to play. And all to download some data that could be embedded with the game to begin with.