Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off - IGN
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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.

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.

  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    I pirate, and also pay for games I think the devs should make money on. I happen to like bioshock and la noire enough to pay for them on steam, with cracked copies to keep.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      44·
      10 months ago

      Why not buy from a DRM free platform or one where the devs make a bigger share of the profit?

      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        It depends on the game. I also don’t want to create many accounts all over the place. I don’t think gog has bioshock?

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        You literally said in another comment that DRM-free storefronts are still DRM. Which is it?

        “you rely on a specific service to be able to play, even if it’s only once (like with GOG), it’s a form of DRM.”

        • Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13·
          10 months ago

          Still better than the alternative which is 100% dependence on the platform you bought from. Even the backups you can create from Steam require Steam to unpack, if it stops existing or they stop supporting it then your backups are useless.

          • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            No they don’t, not for the DRM-free games on steam. I can copy the files and run the executable, just as I can from GOG.