Steam still lets you download games you bought that are not even on sale anymore, they never delete them even a decade after delisting from the store.Hosting this content costs real money.
Taking purchased items away from customers is absolutely not comparable to throwing away cards they haven't sold.
What makes you think they'd invalidate codes that cost them basically nothing?
Having stores activate the card on purchase is extra infrastructure, even if it isn't much. I think most of the remaining stock will be sold soon, so there isn't much point in keeping it up forever. Someone will eventually find dusty cards hidden in a forgotten corner of a remote convenience store, but that might not be worth even a small cost.
Like a geode
Not sure but that's a check human light on the top
Did you only read the title
There's an app for that.
I'll be watching you
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/earth/nano-banana-google-earth-image-generation/
Ah yes, this is a partnership, not an ad.
Disc drm would be a nice blast from the past
Insert floppy no. 55 323
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wrong pit
There was a post about this a while ago.
Ball pit washing machine
https://lemmy.ca/post/51890616
Taking purchased items away from customers is absolutely not comparable to throwing away cards they haven't sold.
Having stores activate the card on purchase is extra infrastructure, even if it isn't much. I think most of the remaining stock will be sold soon, so there isn't much point in keeping it up forever. Someone will eventually find dusty cards hidden in a forgotten corner of a remote convenience store, but that might not be worth even a small cost.
The codes don't expire once activated, but they can drop activation of unsold cards.
Or just abstract art.
They're just slips of paper worth nothing until activated, so I don't expect them to keep thee service alive for too long.
Good old games games
Last time they were hiring for it. Now they're "investing time and effort" which I guess means having those people do something about it.
Worst? This could be great
For them