- northendtrooper ( @northendtrooper@lemmy.ca ) 89•6 months ago
IMO once you delist a game and shut down servers where people cannot play anymore then it should become open source and not protected IP.
- stoy ( @stoy@lemmy.zip ) 30•6 months ago
Open source is too far, but as part of a shutdown of a game and it’s servers there should be a year long period where the publisher is required to release the game without DRM, including the server software, to all customers.
I could see it going through Steam, you get a message “Delistment notification: The Crew is being delisted, get your permanent copy now!”
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 11•6 months ago
Full refunds would be reasonable, if they wanted to protect their IP
- trevor ( @trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English65•6 months ago
Here’s a neat tip:
You can go to most publisher or developer pages on Steam and “ignore” them to prevent Steam from ever showing you their slop again.
Example:
- Go to: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/Ubisoft
- Click the “Settings” cog.
- “Ignore this creator”
You can do the same with EA, 2K, etc. Don’t even give these parasites microseconds of your time when they release their next slop title.
- Frisbeedude ( @liam070@sopuli.xyz ) 16•6 months ago
- JackbyDev ( @JackbyDev@programming.dev ) English5•6 months ago
LEMMY GOLD!!! 😳
- Technus ( @Technus@lemmy.zip ) 60•6 months ago
Ubisoft has done a fantastic job of convincing me to never buy a Ubisoft game ever again.
Not sure that’s how a company is supposed to work, but they sure seem to think so.
- Feydaikin ( @Faydaikin@beehaw.org ) 18•6 months ago
Well, they aren’t alone. Blizzard and Activision is on my blacklist. As well as pretty much any studio own by Microsoft at this point… Oh, and Sony! Can’t forget about them.
The list is long.
- msage ( @msage@programming.dev ) 4•6 months ago
Nintendon’t!
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English38•6 months ago
Fully agree with it, but they’re still extremely popular, and people will gladly keep handing over their money.
For me, I say “Ok” to them wanting us to get used to not owning our content - followed with “Then I’ll pay rental prices. Which means I’m not buying at $60+ dollars, if all I get to do is rent it then I’ll pay <$15 going forward.”
- BluJay320 ( @BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English41•6 months ago
Alternatively: 🏴☠️
Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! ☠
- Glide ( @Glide@lemmy.ca ) 37•6 months ago
I purchased Rayman Legends on a big Steam sale because it is a great game and I wanted to play it again. I installed it. I hit play. It tried to install the Ubisoft launcher. I uninstalled it and refunded.
Fuck off, Ubisoft.
- meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) 27•6 months ago
It’s sad how consumers have zero rights when it comes to digital content. Companies can retroactively make changes, removing content legitimately bought by consumers with no repercussions. I get “not owning” but for a company to collect money for services provided and not actually provide those services will never not astound me.
- BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) 5•6 months ago
idk how madden players can put so much time and money into ultimate team only for the service to end after 2 years. and they do it every single year
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 7•6 months ago
Same way FIFA players do and have been doing, to the tune of over 1 billion dollars since 2018.
- SturgiesYrFase ( @SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 months ago
Jfc…
- deathbird ( @deathbird@mander.xyz ) 3•6 months ago
Right? Call it what you will, changing terms of sale or use after taking someone’s money is wrong.
- meseek #2982 ( @ultratiem@lemmy.ca ) 2•6 months ago
Yeah I can’t even comprehend how that just passes as totally normal these days. Make it all make sense…
- UpperBroccoli ( @UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•6 months ago
- Churbleyimyam ( @Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months ago
This is basically why I don’t buy anything that I don’t think I can protect from being fucked with.
That’s all ownership is really.
- hardy ( @Hardy@lemmy.ml ) 19•6 months ago
I wish people were THAT passionate about REAL life/world problems/ injustices and make fun of the real people in power, who allow Ubisoft to do such things…
- paholg ( @paholg@lemm.ee ) English19•6 months ago
But they’re not even that passionate about this. Shitty game companies continue to be rewarded by players.
- Count Regal Inkwell ( @VinesNFluff@pawb.social ) 4•6 months ago
- If you try to remind GAYMURS of industry abuses after Hypernormalisation has kicked in for them, they’ll call you names.
- Cyrus Draegur ( @Draegur@lemm.ee ) English17•6 months ago
They’re sure giving EA a run for their
moneyuniversally despised revulsion… - bitfucker ( @bitfucker@programming.dev ) 15•6 months ago
Meanwhile someone somewhere is having issues with steam taking too much profit. Do note that even if a game is DELISTED from steam, you still can download the game on steam. Of course it is a different story with license revocation and that is a whole different can of worms. I don’t even know if steam allows the publisher to revoke a license for a game that the player already paid for just because the game is not supported anymore (a different case with breaking ToS/EULA).
- Jako301 ( @Jako301@feddit.de ) 6•6 months ago
Steam requires others to keep the game downloadable if its in your library, but they can’t do anything if ubisoft decides to shut the servers down. You keep your license but it’s useless.
- bitfucker ( @bitfucker@programming.dev ) 3•6 months ago
Well, yeah for multiplayer only games. Hence why I don’t get the appeal of paid multiplayer only games without dedicated server software available.
- SinJab0n ( @SinJab0n@mujico.org ) 14•6 months ago
Thats exactly why i only buy from gog now, and steam only when it comes to multiplayer games.
I bought mass effect collection on the ea store 'cause it have 45% discount when it came out, only for me to find out a year later a silent notification about a game which has being revoked from my library. Reason? Ur guess is as good as mine. Tried to contact ea support, the answer? take it or lose all ur other games too (bf1, bf5 worse purchase ever, and plants vs zombies because they gift it to me). So i told them to go f themselfs and now i can’t play neither mass effect nor bf1.
So yeah, fuck that shit about they “lending” us a license, its either mine or it belongs to those who navigate the sea.
- TheOakTree ( @TheOakTree@lemm.ee ) 7•6 months ago
EA is practically begging people to pirate their single-player experiences.
- TachyonTele ( @TachyonTele@lemm.ee ) 5•6 months ago
Move your installs, people. They can’t take anything away if it’s not where they think it is. (For now)
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 12•6 months ago
I wish more people would buy stuff on GOG, although some games there still have some sort of DRM, Kalypso published games come to mind.
Still, way, way better in terms of ownership than what other platforms offer.
- Schadrach ( @Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ) English2•6 months ago
I thought they had on several occasions dropped games from the store because they had DRM. Which DRM titles does GOG still have?
Last game I paid good money for was on GOG. Everything added to my steam account in the last few years has either been part of a humble bundle or a freebie from somewhere.
- I Cast Fist ( @ICastFist@programming.dev ) 4•6 months ago
GOG sometimes fails to keep some offline installers up to date with what Galaxy installs, some people consider that a DRM, I consider it a service failure.
You can also find some reports checking this thread - the post in question says Beat Hazard 2 won’t run after a clean offline install on a computer without internet. Not DRM per se, as that check only happens once and it creates a savefile
- crusa187 ( @crusa187@lemmy.ml ) 12•6 months ago
Ubisoft has been trash for a long time now. It’s a shame that they control some good IP, but the company’s too far gone to ever be trustworthy. Save your time and money and just play something else imo.
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 1•6 months ago
If they die, other companies will buy that IP
- crusa187 ( @crusa187@lemmy.ml ) 1•6 months ago
Fingers crossed
- Churbleyimyam ( @Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ) 11•6 months ago
Any company that tells you to ‘get used’ to something has massively overstepped the mark.
People you buy things from are not your boss.
Unless you are addicted to them, in which case they are.
- Zorsith ( @Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English10•6 months ago
Ubisoft of 2010 (ish) had some real great games. Shame they’ve become what they are now.
- Rose Thorne(She/Her) ( @NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee ) 11•6 months ago
2010ish?
They’ve had some shoddy shit, but they also have some solid titles in their backlog. The Rayman series, P.O.D, Gex, Splinter Cell, the original Rainbow Six titles, Beyond Good and Evil.
I’ll take my pills and go sit down now.
- borari ( @borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 3•6 months ago
RIP Red Storm Entertainment.