Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1915529-20140702204420/@comment-1496755-20141230214347

I suppose this stuff is explained in the EULA... but I don't know, cause I never read it (no one really does) :P

From what I've read and understood, I think the only real owners of the game (and everything related to it, including screenshots) are the game's authors (id Software / Bethesda?), and we're just "users" who have purchased the right to play the game and do some stuff with it (within certain limits, which are defined in the aforementioned EULA).

But I'm not a lawyer, so this is just a wild hypothesis.

At least we can say that we do own the physical copy of the game (the CD), and we have the entire game in our possession (the CD's content is the full & complete game, and no parts are missing or located elsewhere). In contrast, some modern games give you just some bare minimum that you need to run them (e.g. graphics and sound resources), and the rest of the game data is on some faraway server that you have to log onto, i.e. you possess only a part of the game, which is practically useless (on its own) and definitely requires a missing part, which not in your possession (and never will be).

And this is one of the reasons why modern games irritate me so much. When I own a game, I want to really know (and feel) that I have full control over it, and can enjoy it at any time, without relying on having access to the missing parts.