

Apparently even if you have a physical copy of a game, you’re SoL. Even the physical disc is only just a “license” to play the game. You don’t actually have rights with it apparently.
Which is fucking bullshit. Almost nothing else in the world works like that. Once you own something, it’s yours and you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, except video games.

And the purchase I made for the game was basically rendered pointless when they went F2P, there was no thought or talk of that license having an expiration date until the “content vault” happened.
And then the “vault” itself being an entire legal loophole just so they could delete the entire game people paid money for. People say the data still exists somewhere and it would be too much work to update it all to the new engine, but that’s just cope. It doesn’t exist anymore; they had to use third-party evidence, which is inadmissible, in their big court case, which tells me that it doesn’t exist anymore.
What a goddamn shitshow.
Edit: all that said, if I bought the physical copy of the game, I should still be able to access and play the removed content, because my “license” didn’t change or technically expire.