If buying is not owning, pirating is not stealing.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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The problem is this game can't even be pirated due to how it's architected.
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As if copies of a game on your computer is somehow more digital than the copy being on a disk or a chip that's ROM.
Digital ownership, not storage. As in DRM, GaaS licensing and always-online launchers.
A ROM cartridge was physical ownership, if you had the cartridge, you could play.
A CD-key was also a form of physical ownership, install the game and type in the key from the case, you could play.
That should be "ownership" as actual ownership implies having control over a thing and no one who "purchased" this seems to have much control. Breaking the DRM and creating a self hosted sever is taking ownership of it. Don't pretend CD keys were physical ownership either unless the key was entirely validated offline which admittedly older key schemes were.
release server software and let us self host!!!
they dont even need to foot the cost for anything.
That eats into their profits for their other/new games
How the digital ownership normalized the fact that any service, game can disappear easily. The full digital future empowered the corporations, and that issue is here clearly shown by Ubisoft.
I can't believe they double down on this. It seems ubisoft's management actually thrives on gamers' rage.
Well they are french.
When Nintendo eshop closed, I lost all my purchases. I tried contacting Nintendo to see if they could transfer my purchases to my switch account, but contacting Nintendo is like trying to contact god, you're gonna get nowhere
Boycott this shit company
Been doing that for years. Will happily continue.
But I’m just one person. Ubisoft won’t feel it unless hundreds of thousands more do the same.
Same
Thanks UbiSoft for rubbing it in my face with this message, "You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?"
"Your single-payment rental period is suddenly over. Check out our shop where you can single-payment rent another game."
Fixed it for Ubisoft
Urhg that makes me mad to read.
You no longer have access to my money. Why not kiss my ass Ubisoft, to pursue your adventure?
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