You Don't Own This Game And Neither Do I

**THIS IS A WORK OF SATIRE AND IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY**

This web media creation aspires to resolve the widely known misconception that you "own" video games. You may not realise it now, but one day your games could be doomed to disappear and never return. Leave a comment and share how you will keep your games from vanishing.

Pick your path and see if you will own your games forever or be doomed to lose them forever (including this one).

Share this game with your friends before it disappears.

All media outlined below remain the property of the respective rights holders. These sources are used legally under Australian Fair Dealing for the purposes of criticism or review, parody, or satire. All original content is released under an Australian Creative Commons Attribution license; for full details, see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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