My VaM SSD bit the dust, so I lost all my paid content. Is there any way I can get some, if not all, of it back without having to pay for it again? (And I don't want to hear about pirating. I legit paid for all of it, some $400+ worth of content in total over the years)
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Recover lost paid content
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You didn't pay for the content, you paid for a timeframe to access the content, that time is finished.
While you can try telling your situation to the creators you subscribed to, I doubt though they will give you access to that for free.
Highly suggest you learn from this experience and start having a backup, even free Hub content is not garanteed to be available forever.
While you can try telling your situation to the creators you subscribed to, I doubt though they will give you access to that for free.
Highly suggest you learn from this experience and start having a backup, even free Hub content is not garanteed to be available forever.
No worries, I resubbed and got back some of the content. I'll just have to do so each month as time passes. And yea, I didn't think about it as 'buying a timeframe' to get the content before. Makes sense and it's fair. Thanks for making me realize my own ineptitude, lol.
Everyone at some point loses a lot of stuff for not having made backups or be used to making. I surely learned my lesson when that happened and now all my stuff is safe... well... from me mostly, usually I'm the cause.
I am desagree with this practice, while I understand it is how patreon work, if you loose your video games content, it will still be available to download on any other platforms. I am not blaming creator here, but the system does not service costumer.
We can not like how patreon works but it is what it is and before when you bought a game ( before steam and other launchers) when our disk (CD) got damaged that was it bro, gotta buy a new one; even going back a few years that was still the case with most games. We couldn't go back to the store and get a new copy.
Steam for example is almost the same case, even if it doesn't look like it. While the timeframe to download your games is seen as forever, it is not. At any point, Steam can remove from their servers what you "bought", block your access to it for various reasons, etc. You don't own a game copy, you bought a potentially long access to the game only if you follow Steam's rules and service is available.
I say Steam but this applies to many others like it.
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Murn just added a reply while I was writing to show another example. Adding that you also have limitations on hardware for physical copies and that changes over time. Anyone can read DVDs to play their physical bought items anymore?
Time is a limited commodity associated with our purchase of somethign, even if we don't notice it.
We are comparing 2 extremes situation, of course every media have is limitation, I am a patreon user myself, I just think a month time frame is less than a floppy disk. By the way I can still play Shadow President via an external usb floppy driver and Dosbox... Yes it does work and yes this game exist.
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Some person pay their rent with Patreon incomes, and it's a complex unstable situation.
Asking for a couple of bucks to access (most of the time) all the content they provide is nothing. And on your end the only effort you have to make is make a backup. You want the same service provided by multi-million (if not billion) companies, from and independent creator working their ass off to provide good content.
Patreon business model is extremely fair for both the creator and the end consumer.
Simply accept you made a mistake, create a backup process for your favourite patreon content, and give your favourite creators a couple of bucks more to get your content back.
Shit happens, I'm very sorry you lost some content, but don't blame the model/system you were perfectly aware of when subscribing to it in the first place.
Fyi, there are even patreons only allowing use of their content WHEN you are subscribed to it. You never "own" the content, not on Steam, not even with physical media.
Asking for a couple of bucks to access (most of the time) all the content they provide is nothing. And on your end the only effort you have to make is make a backup. You want the same service provided by multi-million (if not billion) companies, from and independent creator working their ass off to provide good content.
Patreon business model is extremely fair for both the creator and the end consumer.
Simply accept you made a mistake, create a backup process for your favourite patreon content, and give your favourite creators a couple of bucks more to get your content back.
Shit happens, I'm very sorry you lost some content, but don't blame the model/system you were perfectly aware of when subscribing to it in the first place.
Fyi, there are even patreons only allowing use of their content WHEN you are subscribed to it. You never "own" the content, not on Steam, not even with physical media.
Timeframes for subscriptions/rent/membership/whatever is named is not a extreme situation, it's a core part of that service. Netflix, Spotify, internet access, house rent, gym, any kind of subscription is time based. Some patreon creators have a yearly subscription with a discount, if you prefer that option. Monthly, yearly, all the same, time based.
Guys! Maybe it's because maybe I am Canadadien 
(sorry I know it sound racist), but improving services is a thing and I am not blaming creators for this, but the system. Vam creators are offering digitals medias, not a rent. If I had the option to let people redownload things they pays for I would let them do it, It's my opinion and free will, if we had the option, but we don't. I get that shit happen situation, but Hello warranty? No?
Just my 2 cents, I am not crashing VAM community here and turn this into (do we own are soul?) kind of conversation. In faq I believe, that most of people rarely give creator the credit they deserve for they work, like if making something on a computer is very easy, it' not, I know that.
Bay the way, I am french, english is my second language, sorry if I may sound condescendent to some, I am very open mind and soft with my points.
(sorry I know it sound racist), but improving services is a thing and I am not blaming creators for this, but the system. Vam creators are offering digitals medias, not a rent. If I had the option to let people redownload things they pays for I would let them do it, It's my opinion and free will, if we had the option, but we don't. I get that shit happen situation, but Hello warranty? No?Just my 2 cents, I am not crashing VAM community here and turn this into (do we own are soul?) kind of conversation. In faq I believe, that most of people rarely give creator the credit they deserve for they work, like if making something on a computer is very easy, it' not, I know that.
Bay the way, I am french, english is my second language, sorry if I may sound condescendent to some, I am very open mind and soft with my points.
The problem is that you're seeing things in a way that is not reality. I don't mean to offend with the phrase, just to be direct.
If you enroll in a gym, what you pay for is a timed access to the gym's resources. You don't own the gym contents, not even while you're there, you're renting time and space within the rules the gym membership allows. Once the gym membership is over they don't let you in unless you renew.
Is subscription (renting) a bad user service?
In the gym example you could buy a gym, something most people cannot do, so renting (membership) is a service that helps many people have access to a gym that doesn't belong to them at a much lower cost than buying one.
In Patreon, focusing on VaM content, you are almost always renting, but you can also buy things as some creators do custom works where you pay for a specific thing you want. If the price is agreed with both, they can even transfer copyright to you, making you the true owner of something.
For the most part, the cheap subscription is cheap because they are not selling you the product, they're selling access to it for a certain time, but you never own it.
If you enroll in a gym, what you pay for is a timed access to the gym's resources. You don't own the gym contents, not even while you're there, you're renting time and space within the rules the gym membership allows. Once the gym membership is over they don't let you in unless you renew.
Is subscription (renting) a bad user service?
In the gym example you could buy a gym, something most people cannot do, so renting (membership) is a service that helps many people have access to a gym that doesn't belong to them at a much lower cost than buying one.
In Patreon, focusing on VaM content, you are almost always renting, but you can also buy things as some creators do custom works where you pay for a specific thing you want. If the price is agreed with both, they can even transfer copyright to you, making you the true owner of something.
For the most part, the cheap subscription is cheap because they are not selling you the product, they're selling access to it for a certain time, but you never own it.
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I'd try reaching out to the creators - send them a PM about your situation. They'll be able to check if youve been a patron in the past in their community overview and might just send you the content again.
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