The online store that promised games that were "yours forever" is shutting down

Legacy Games launcher is not long for this world

"Download and install your purchased games via the Legacy Games Launcher as soon as possible and no later than February 28, 2027," the FAQ states. Once installed, you can play them anytime through the launcher. "We recommend you hold off on installing anything you want while you still can." All existing membership points, rewards and gifts of users will also expire at the end of the year. Legacy Games also partnered with Amazon's streaming service Luna. Anything there will still be supported, but only if it's claimed before the end date.

"Oh yeah, I have infinite storage available," wrote one person on the Prime Gaming subreddit. "This is a stupid business practice and we need more laws to avoid such behavior or to compensate users." "Go, I hope GOG doesn't end like this," someone else chimed in.

While it's harder to imagine the bigger digital game storefronts, especially GOG and Steam, going down, nothing really lasts forever, especially in digital form, no matter what the marketing slogan is on the website. At least with digital PC games sold without DRM, players can move them between their storage devices without worrying about launchers or reloading. It's still painful, and not the way most people have been trained to think of their digital game—libraries, which instead are something that magically survives the crumbling physical world around them. Not so with Legacy Games.

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