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Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games (kotaku.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] janonymous@lemmy.world 46 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If your games are on steam, you're already not owning them. The only difference seems to be that steam doesn't demand a monthly subscription cost, yet

We already have game pass so it's not like this is something completely new either.

If this makes money, other big publishers will join and in 10 years it's the norm.

Personally, I'll try my best to keep buying on GOG and itch.io where I get to actually own my games.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

Agree, I own a lot of games in Steam but most come from bundles or were not bought a full price. I do buy full price games on GOG because I can have a backup offline.

[–] SendMeYourInk@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

The only difference is a huge difference though. Pay once for a game that you can access anytime versus paying continuously for the rest of your life to keep access to a game.

Some games are not worth keeping access to and subscription may end up being cheaper, but it is trading one benefit for another.

[–] Wodge@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

The only difference seems to be that steam doesn’t demand a monthly subscription cost, yet

Which Ubisoft isn't doing either. This is just Ubisoft's gamepass style subscription, which has been available for a few years now, it's just getting a 2 tier pricing model.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 5 months ago

I'm not enough of a Linux user to inconvenience myself so I'm just using Steam. The cloud sync is the killer feature for me - if GOG had something like it even if I have to pay extra, I'd so use it.