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Ubisoft tells The Crew players they never actually owned the game (www.gamedeveloper.com)
submitted 13 hours ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 4 hours ago

If that's so, why should """buy""" it? Or any other, for that matter?

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 10 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/

Edit: thanks to @neme@lemm.ee there's a comm linked below

https://sh.itjust.works/c/stopkillinggames@lemm.ee

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Join our discord

It’s so weird to fight for digital ownership of one thing and then put all the organizing work and discussion into another closed corporate ecosystem that could shut down or charge per head at any time

[–] mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Create a /c comm and email Ross to let him know it exists. I'm sure he'd be amenable

rosswscott@gmail.com

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago

Well thats okay. Someone pirating the game never actually stole it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Guess I'll never own AC shadows or any game of theirs. If I must, I'll treat their games as rentals. And I never pay over 20 for a rental.

[–] real_squids@sopuli.xyz 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure they'll be just fine if we "get" their games for free, they need to get used to not owning my money. Regardless, buying every new Ubisoft game is kinda pointless. I try one every 3-4 years, not much changes in a year.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 0 points 12 hours ago

Prince of Persia, the lost crown was fantastic. Honestly the only ubi game I've considered paying for since the early 2010s

[–] Album@lemmy.ca 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's been like this forever. You have a "license to play the game" same as the movies you buy are a license to play the content in a private setting

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

If a movie rescinds the license to play then you get your money back.

Like when Amazon pulled to license for people who purchased 1984.

https://www.npr.org/2009/07/24/106989048/amazons-1984-deletion-from-kindle-examined

[–] annette_runner@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

They dont follow this policy anymore. The T&C clearly state that you dont own the digital media and are not entitled to access it.