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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 29 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I don't know what planet he's on but we already don't really own our games. Hell if Steam goes down I'm going to lose access to pretty much everything.

The problem is more that I don't trust Ubisoft to not change the terms of the agreement halfway through. I can totally see them pulling a rockstar and getting rid of an old version of the game if they decide they want to do an HD release.

[–] Sanskimost@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Steam has a clause where if they shut down you will have access to all of your games still.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Kind of, not really

There will be lawsuits around it when it happens that will prevent it

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