Ubisoft's own The Crew, for one. Yeah, okay, I didn't actually buy it, I got it for free somewhere, but still. I can't play it anymore unless I download the pirated version with the offline patch, the existence of which proves that the game was taken away not for any technical reasons but simply to 'motivate' people to buy the sequel. It's not even just planned obsolescence, it's enforced obsolescence.
I feel like some of the games on that list are kinda reaching a bit.
Burnout Paradise 2008 is there, but you can play it offline, you can even play multiplayer. Online multiplayer is literally the only thing that's disabled. Yet that's a game that's "dead"?
Or Might & Magic Heroes VI, the list says that when servers shut down "content that required online access was unlocked", isn't that what the majority of people have been campaigning for?
I don't know, I haven't gone through the list in detail. You can do that if you want, but either way they meet your criteria as games that people bought and then lost access to.
Yeah, because you are buying a shovel, not a license for a shovel. If you bought a license that allows you to use shovel for 10 days, then they could take it away from you legally.
You're getting downvoted, but you're right: the customer has never owned the game, not even on CD. I would have liked for "Stop Killing Games" to succeed, but I'm also a realist.
Yeah. "Buy" a license that we can revoke at any moment for any reason or no reason at all. And you're bound by it, whereas we can change it at any time - and you will have to accept it, otherwise you cannot use the thing you supposedly "bought". Oh, and if we revoke your license, you aren't entitled to a refund or whatever, why would you be?
They actually can't revoke it for any reason as that would fall into their own breach of contracts, but they can enforce your violations and yes the agreement can change later.
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u/JerryTzouga | 9070XT🤝5600X Jun 17 '26
Wait what did you say?
Pirate their upcoming Rayman Remake? If you insist