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Concord a digital game was sold as a license, which they can terminate at any time.

Due to low players numbers they stopped selling the game, took the servers offline and refunded everyone who bought it after only a few weeks.

But what if they didn't refund everyone? Ignore that it would be a terrible business move because they need people to trust them.

Would that have been legal?

My personal guess/hope is that it might run afoul of some kind of vaguely worded consumer protection law, and that there is a reasonable expectation that your license won't be revoked the next day.

I am mainly interested in US or EU answers.).

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This wouldn't have been legal, or meaningful.

It's not even "vaguely worded consumer protection law". This is indeed consumer law, and the onus of providing a clear description of the service falls on Sony. There is a general consumer right to withdrawal in the EU which usually lasts 14 days, but if insufficient information is offered then the period is one year. So consumers, since they would not have known that the service stopped after a few weeks, could withdraw from the contract even months afterwards.

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