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homeslice69today at 7:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

While Microsoft may not be as bad on this as Sony so far, they have certainly shown a willingness to revoke access to digital games. For example- in an effort to push users to the newer fifa titles with microtransactions, they quietly removed the ability to redownload purchased digital copies of older fifa games. For anyone who might've temporarily uninstalled the game to free up space, there was suddenly no way to get the game on your machine again.


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thewebguydtoday at 8:17 PM

That's almost certainly due to EA's licensing agreement with FIFA rather than Microsoft's decision. Similar to how you can no longer purchase older Forza games due to the licensing for use of the cars expiring.

0cf8612b2e1etoday at 7:39 PM

That sounds like deletion by proxy. If there is no way to redownload it, seeing the title listed on your account does little good.