Comment on Players still don't feel "comfortable" with game subscription services, says Ubisoft+ boss
INeedMana@lemmy.world 8 months ago
So when they decide to save storage by stopping serving 20 years old game me and my one buddy play I have to pray it comes back one day? Fuck no. We are already loosing cinema history because of streaming.
There are games that are supposed to be consumed like fast-food (like online shooters that depend on large number of players) but these aren’t even majority.
I propose a deal: you serve us games via subscriptions but the moment you pull a plug on a game you are bound by law to make it available on torrents
xor@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
yep. they shouldn’t be allowed to abandon games that people paid for… if they require drm…
i really like ID software’s system of open sourcing games once they’ve aged enough…
i think that should be the standard…
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
the reality is that it can’t be the standard. id Software is the exception because they happened to own 99% of the code.
Ubisoft can’t release the source code to some random game because it uses a lot of other companies code for physics, sound, networking, AI, scripting, graphics, everything.
The most realistic answer to this is that if you don’t offer public access to copy-written works for 10 years, then it should fall into public ownership. let people pay for it or let the public own it.
xor@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
that’s not the reality…