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If I buy (licence) a game from epic that requires servers they maintain to function ... so they have to give me back the money now that they have rendered the game non-functional?

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You don’t have a perpetual license, so no.

Is there any minimal duration requirement? Or is the developer allowed to publish the game and shut down the servers, say, a month later?

If you bought the game, and the seller didn't make it exceedingly clear that you were renting instead of buying, then yes, you do own a perpetual license.

Just because the developers write "actually you didn't buy it even though we said you did, tough shit" in the EULA doesn't make it true.

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