Discussions in the past about not being able to access digital gaming content that users had paid for...

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I have a recollection of some long threads about some companies discontinuing gaming content and members of Lemmy having strong feelings and evidence about all this. I have been trying to search these older threads up but I can’t find them. Does anyone remember these conversations? What companies were involved? Games? How much data was basically disappeared?

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Maybe you’re looking for stopkillinggames.com

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- wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Really important work! Thank you. The EU is good had holding the vultures accountable but USA continues to let them thrive.
  
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NoneYa@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It was mainly around Ubisoft’s The Crew as the latest conversation. This was about a month ago.

Ubisoft took the game offline and also removed from customers’ digital libraries with a message suggesting they try the newer installments in the series instead of the game they paid for.

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- wowwoweowza@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thank you! So many people do not realize that this is coming to everyone who invests in digital games like this.
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Not all digital games. If they’re DRM free, and if the multiplayer allows for LAN, direct IP connections, private servers, etc; then they’re built to last, arguably better so than physical media.
    
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  - Archelon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Digital media of any sort, really.
    
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