Games

I think there is an implication that if you buy a game which is online by nature (e.g. an MMO) that the servers can and will shut down eventually. My cupboard is filled with defunct MMOs. And people do not "own" any commercial software per se, they run it under licence.

So I don't see that Ubisoft has any legal obligation here. But as a good will gesture they really should put the server code in escrow, or open source chunks of it so that games can continue to enjoy life after the company itself has no economic incentive to continue running it.

I find it so strange that people hate Ubisoft for this, but would rush to defend Valve for starting this trend.

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Ubisoft deserves to go bankrupt, get dissolved, and have their IP’s sold to people aren’t malicious.

If they don’t sell the game but a long term rental license, then they should not say “we’ve sold 1234557890 copies of ”.

“You will own nothing and like it”

Some call it piracy when you download games, movies, music, software or books. I call it an online public library. In 2003 I used to get video games from the public library, install them on my PC and play them. You had to have the disk in your CD drive to play the game so when the game was due back at the library you could return or renew it. If game makers don't provide hard copies then downloading is no different than using the library.

Tell you what customers absolutely can do: decide to stop doing business with you.

All I want Ubisoft to do is make more Rayman games. Yet they doing things like this.

This is why I just pirate games from big developers. They’re fuckers so fuck them anyway.

The use of the words 'buy', "own" or 'purchase' in connection with DRM rental should be an international felony, and grounds for immediate break-up of businesses that use them.

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing.

Technically they're right, which is why pirating Ubisoft games is ethical.

Edit: Pirating Nintendo games is ethical too, of course.