Looks like late stage capitalism is taking away people's right to personal property.
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2024
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Then they should aswell
I'm not much of a gamer anymore...
Might have to visit some torrent sites anyway. Maybe I can find someone who likes Ubisoft games but can't afford them and doesn't know how to acquire them...
Never was
Everyone here will balk and biych about it and rightly so, but this will happen, unfortunately. Why? Because Ubisoft is on the path of enshittification, and most of humanity are dumb and don't care and will walk willingly like sheep to the slaughter.
Hey I've seen this one before!
Can someone explain the logic behind this? Other than "they say that, so we get to say this!"
The original context of this quote. Which has suspiciously been removed, is in reference to subscription models taking off.
The original quote is more along the line of "a subscription model isn't feasible unless gamers get used to the idea of not owning their games"
So really any line of logic is flawed because it misrepresents the original comment.
No it's not. I'm the guy who started this quote and it was on a Louis Rossmann video about a company who broke their customers' lifetime licenses to make them switch to their subscription model.
This is the video: https://youtu.be/tkmOddW1vu8?si=jAqmaOjzwYvdgYap
I'm technol33t.
I'm talking about the Ubisoft quote.
Ohhh that tracks.
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If purchase isn't ownership,
Then it's time for communusm
EDIT: forgot to type time
The term “If purchase isn’t ownership” has no relationship to the article quote. The suggestion of not owning games refers to having subscription-based access to them; as of yet only ever offered as a suggested alternative to purchasing games, which is still very much an option.
These memes are always using terribly structured logic to justify piracy.
I can live with that, I mean, subscription for games, but once a game enters the catalog, it can never be removed.
He's basically threatening to move to a subscription-instead-of-purchase model. They've toyed with this idea for years, and have been trying to normalize it.
These memes are always using terribly structured logic to justify piracy.
Agreed. Nobody needs to justify piracy. Piracy is automatically justified because the reasons people justified banning piracy were bad-faith. Digital IP is theft whose only purpose has failed.
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I just borrow my games for a little while then I set them free.. like a butterfly if you will...