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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/games

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Larian director of publishing Michael Douse, never one to be shy about speaking his mind, has spoken his mind about Ubisoft's decision to disband the Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown development team, saying it's the result of a "broken strategy" that prioritizes subscriptions over sales.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is quite good. PC Gamer's Mollie Taylor felt it was dragged down by a very slow start, calling it "a slow burn to a fault" in an overall positive review, and it holds an enviable 86 aggregate score on Metacritic. Despite that, Ubisoft recently confirmed that the development team has been scattered to the four winds to work on "other projects that will benefit from their expertise."

This, Douse feels, is at least partially the outcome of Ubisoft's focus on subscriptions over conventional game sales—the whole "feeling comfortable with not owning your game" thing espoused by Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay earlier this year—and the decision to stop releasing games on Steam, which is far and away the biggest digital storefront for PC gaming.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

If you're talking about Steam, while it provides its own DRM system, games can be published on there without any DRM whatsoever, so you can do whatever you want with the downloaded files and then play the game without Steam.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

And baldur's gate 3 is one such game, it only runs the steam service (which includes a check that you actually can play the game either through ownership or family sharing) when steam is actually running so you can join multiplayer properly.

[+] Kecessa -6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh so you can resell your used copy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Plenty of people sell accounts with a specific game activated on it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I guess you could sell a literal copy, yeah. But ironically, the lack of DRM binding that copy to an account by a user makes a "proof of original ownership" harder, if that's what you want.

That's not how it works with digital goods, but that's a limitation of digital goods really.

[–] taladar 5 points 1 month ago

It is really both, the law tries way too hard to pretend digital data is goods that can be thought of in individual instances like physical goods can. That is how misconceptions like "owning" or "reselling" are put into people's heads in the first place.