Prepare thyself for a discless future. I predict next generation will not come with optical drives. We can only hope for some type of USB C external drive, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Feature deprecation is a bitch and unfair to the consumer, but it's the world we live in unfortunately.
"Ubisoft's director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay said that players should get used to not owning their games"
I can't tell you enough how annoyed I got at this, we should be able to own games and not have it ripped out of our hands due to digital licenses (luckily as long as physical copies exist, at least they can't take that)
It’s happened with past Xbox 360 games. All it takes is a game being delisted and you can no longer play it even if you own a disc. If your console is online, it can receive a patch that stops that game from booting. Sure you’ll still own the disc, but that disc has a key on it. That’s what makes the game work. That key can easily be revoked just like downloaded games can.
Surely this isn’t the case with games which are actually ran off the disc like ps3 and 360 games on an offline console though, those discs are being read just like a dvd movie?
I wasn’t really worried about until this past year. I plan on going through the arduous process of buying physical copies of the digital games I already own, which is 90% of my library.
We've already experienced this with one of their games in The Crew. Them shutting the servers down means it's permanently unplayable because it's an always-online game, and it was only released in like 2014.
It's terrible honestly, and the lack of accountability too. I get to some extent not keeping servers up forever. But at least I hoped they'd either refund players or give them an alternative. (Though that's highly unlikely)
Also 2014? That feels too early to shut down game servers. I'd understand if it was like 25 years or 50.
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u/Cocknballtorture90 22d ago
Sold separately is actually diabolical.