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That started with BF3, and worked pretty OK there.

It worked horribly! It worked so poorly that BF4 had to switch back to an in-game server browser

>If this shit becomes mainstream say goodbye to ever owning your data ever again

1. We're in that world now. You think you 'own' those mobile games you bought? You think games couldn't be pulled from your digital Steam library?

2. In the era of Flash and before mobile, browser gaming used to be a much much bigger thing.

I don't want to "own" a 50GB platform-specific root-accessing game.

Then don't buy it?

I don't want to rent something that doesn't recognize platform conventions or take full advantage of my hardware and storage, when it can and should have

Neither do I want to have to pay some rent-seeking wanterpreneurial fuck a monthly fee to access content that runs better locally

Then don't rent it.