But let's be honest, it's more likely for big stores to disappear without warning or for a physical game to be stolen/broken/lost?
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Apparently Ubisoft started removing The Crew from user accounts
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Aren't the server emulators being made for PC which is digital only?
Think about what one way or the other means. That's for both you and dose.
Shadowbane has an emulator. Planetside has an emulator. Marvel Heroes has an emulator. Star Wars Galaxies has an emulator and an arguably larger community than it did post-NGE. I use my copy of Star Wars Galaxies on Steam that is still downloadable to this day to play that emulator.
What Ubisoft did is ensure that when The Crew inevitably does get an emulator/offline mode, you're going to have to pirate the installation files to play a game that you own. They even had the audacity to say "check our store for something to replace the thing we took away from you, kthxbye".
This issue has been fixed by Valve forever ago. They allow third parties to run content/authentication servers
I assumed they were looking into including the Xbox 360 etc too but yeh I could be wrong.
If the digital store became unavailable you wouldn't have any games to use the cracks and emulators on.
Yep. If that day were to ever come, we might have to download some executable patcher that would exist within an hour of Steam shutting down but preservation groups would keep those CDNs going at their own expense and I'm sure those groups would be very successful in doing so.
PC games on services such as Steam are centralized, so when that goes, so do your digital games.
In today's world of gaming you own nothing. It's why I try to buy physical where I can (thanks PlayAsia!) and avoid digital.
Still terrible how things went digital and we still have $70 games. This is thanks to all the savings going into the company pockets and not us. Manufacturing and shipping at that stage no longer exists. No need to fight for retail space since it's just paper cards. Now, does that cost savings pass off to us? Of course not and why would it when they can just charge us what they did for games that included all that additional cost?
They got to increase their bottom lines while also putting massive limitations of the products they sell us. They get to have you buy it, meanwhile they still own it. The scene has gone from ownership to rental.
Likely the main reason I game a lot less than I used to. I still buy Switch games though. At least for now I know that in 20 years I can still play them.
Edit - Also worth mentioning is that someone like me isn't made of money, so the other BIG perk of physical ownership is that I can buy a $70 game, finish it, sell for $35 and then get another game for $35 more, rather than be stuck with the $70 game I may never play again and have to lay out $70 again for another.
That's what is sad to see. We are losing that level of ownership. No resale potential while experiencing ballooning game pricing.
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But I would have the games I have installed, which is pretty much my entire library since I don't really uninstall things.
Back them up to an external before then, and if not just get them through other means.
Wow...an artificially killed off physical copy...
Don't tell Apple. They'll love that.
I mean if anything the internet and it's existence would also be the reason people can come together to fight this crap and make private servers and all of that too.
IKR. I honestly really hate that many games just don't have any sort of continuity arragements in place and and things like local lan play for many of them should be standard but that's just me I guess.
Add this to the list of examples of why making a game you own not downloadable is fucked up.
www.resetera.com
An unofficial fan-made launcher for Lawbreakers has made the game playable again for the first time in 6 years.
vgc https://x.com/therealcliffyb/status/1779235918433391086
www.resetera.com
I can't believe they managed to bring it back! I wish I had played this when it 1st came out.Add this to the list of examples of why making a game you own not downloadable is fucked up.
An unofficial fan-made launcher for Lawbreakers has made the game playable again for the first time in 6 years.
vgc https://x.com/therealcliffyb/status/1779235918433391086
Where is most of the news on the local server simulator? I remember reading a few weeks ago about how something was in the wings, but haven't followed up on it since.
BTW Also here in Australia, showing in Uplay that the game is unavailable (as per other people in this thread).
BTW Also here in Australia, showing in Uplay that the game is unavailable (as per other people in this thread).
I'm feeling a lot less secure with my games on uplay/Ubisoft Connect (or whatever it's called) now that ubisoft has set the precedent that they can just remove a game from our accounts. Has the game been removed from steam accounts as well or is it only on uplay?
They could have gone the good PR route and actually made the game playable offline. Sure it might have cost them a little bit but you'd think the goodwill would've been worth it.
I imagine The Division is the next game on the chopping block now.
They could have gone the good PR route and actually made the game playable offline. Sure it might have cost them a little bit but you'd think the goodwill would've been worth it.
I imagine The Division is the next game on the chopping block now.
Someone should make a thread about this. Unfortunately I don't have privileges.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/659071/
In this case it's not even so much keeping games in a working state. It's just "keeping games".
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But as long as you do your do diligence GOG installers are even safer than a single disk that can be broken or get damaged or get lost. You can make infinite copies of gog installers on different drives, usb-keys, even put them on a disk if you want.
Oh absolutely true that's why I mention GOG as the gold standard, but the onus is on the user to do this, and that can be a huge undertaking depending on the size of their library.
I'm sure many don't do that and thus the hypothetical risk I mention is still true.
Wonderful!
It shouldn't be this way that fans have to do this sort of work. If Ubi actually cared about their games and the people who enjoy them they would have done this.
Now if only Ubi hadn't removed the game from everyone's accounts so we could actually play this when it's out.
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Yeah, the size of games is basically why I've decided to trust steam to store my games. I don't have the space to keep storing all the games I own. And I don't want to have to deal with the stress of fearing hard-drives are going to fail and therefore have to keep backups of entire drives and all that.
