This is not something to take lightly. Just because you may feel someone else is doing the same thing, does not make it right to operate outside of the legal license framework in your own business.
You need a licensing agreement with a developer in order to compensate them for a commercial license and offer the game in your venue. There are simple ways and more complex ways to go about doing this but it cannot be avoided.
Below are a few examples – but remember, you must receive permission from the developer in order to legally offer a game as part of your business. Note very well: you must receive the developer’s explicit permission to offer a game commercially.
The bottom line is simple, you need a commercial license to use games in any commercial venture. Allowing people to access games through any personal license is not permitted under the license and you could be liable for copyright infringement and breach of the license agreement.
If you ask a developer to offer a game and they will not offer you a commercial license or you cannot come to an agreement on the price or structure for the agreement, you can’t offer the game. It’s as simple as that.
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