Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s because valve has always been transparent about it. They’ve also put in place a lot of protections for gamers, which is why I trust their store. Their stuff is also a license, but I have yet to see something pulled out of my inventory. Actually there was a game once, and it was a Ubisoft game now that I think of it. I believe that’s when they put in more protections.

  Ubisoft wants to make everything cloud dependent and then want us to be happy that we can’t play our games anymore. They lost all of my trust. If it’s not a purchase, then it’s a rental in my eyes, and I’d never pay more than $20 for a rental.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s because valve has always been transparent about it

    Gonna stop you right there. It’s only recently, after being forced to. That Steam highlights that you are buying a licence.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Yeah, but it’s always been a license. I’ve never been unaware of that, it’s only now that publishers are starting to abuse that fact that they’re making it obvious. Again, I’ve never been burned by valve, so I trust them. Maybe that’ll change some day, but for now, that’s why they’re doing better.

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