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Players still don't feel "comfortable" with game subscription services, says Ubisoft+ boss
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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So when they decide to save storage by stopping serving 20 years old game me and my one buddy play I have to pray it comes back one day? Fuck no. We are already loosing cinema history because of streaming.
There are games that are supposed to be consumed like fast-food (like online shooters that depend on large number of players) but these aren't even majority.
I propose a deal: they serve us games via subscriptions but the moment they pull a plug on a game they are bound by law to make it available on torrents
yep. they shouldn't be allowed to abandon games that people paid for... if they require drm...
i really like ID software's system of open sourcing games once they've aged enough...
i think that should be the standard...
the reality is that it can't be the standard. id Software is the exception because they happened to own 99% of the code.
Ubisoft can't release the source code to some random game because it uses a lot of other companies code for physics, sound, networking, AI, scripting, graphics, everything.
The most realistic answer to this is that if you don't offer public access to copy-written works for 10 years, then it should fall into public ownership. let people pay for it or let the public own it.
that's not the reality...