Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Half Life 2 works offline just fine. You can even run the exe directly without Steam open. You just cannot compare the two. But yes, if Steam get shut down you obviously cannot download them again. Same goes for games on GOG. You could archive them, but you can also archive games from Steam, it’s all the same.

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  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I didn’t say you can’t play them, just that you don’t own them. This is still true with DRM free games. You don’t own any house without a locked front door

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You don’t really own a house at all. Gotta pay eternal rent to the government to keep it

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      • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Damn.

        Damn

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      • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or, ownership itself is a service. Rights mean nothing if nobody enforces them, and that includes property rights.

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