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Microsoft game pass is pretty awesome. So, no, let's not.
You got me. Best I can do is buy BF1 for $12 and BF5 for $9. So for like $21 I can play the games as many time as I want without a monthly reoccurring fee. I also don't care for the legitimacy of the keys because BF1 is 8 years old and BFV is 6 years old, plus I'm kinda of a dick. But hey, you saved money because BF1 on Steam is $40 and BFV is $50.
As far as I'm concerned, I do. Most people would consider buying games online to be 100% theirs. It's a grey area that hasn't been taken to court, and chances are if they did it would cause more problems than it would solve. What can any one company do if I own a GoG copy of the game and continue to install it, even though my license were to be revoked? What if I backup my Steam games and use cracks to continue to use them? Not a whole lot they can do about it.
Why mention games you haven't played since 2016 and 2018? Also couldn't have been good games if you haven't revisited them again. I don't play these kind of games personally but games like Overwatch I played for a good 3 months before I was done with it. Also, Game Pass is said to be poor value today due to the lack of new AAA games released on it. Quick look shows their newest games are Resident Evil 2 Remake and AC Valhalla, which aren't new. We're talking about 2019 and 2020 games. They're up to Resident Evil 4 remake which Game Pass doesn't have. They do have Starfield if that's a game someone wants to play. Game Pass started strong but like any new service the deal has changed for the worse.
I make it a rule to avoid Ubisoft games. Assassin's Creed games I especially avoid, because I've played enough to know.
Like any new store that opens up, the deals are good. Now that the store has established customers, the deals are gone. Don't be surprised if they eventually show ads and require more money to remove ads.
World of Warcraft?
People nowadays are quick to give up their rights and stuff for convince.
Remember when the Xbox One was announced and Microsoft had a plan to allow you to resell your digital games, but everybody attacked Microsoft so much that they got rid of that plan simply because the console would be required to check in online to verify your licenses every so often?
i could be remembering wrong, but it seemed like the online check was more about drm, kinect and blocking used games, meaning no reselling even for physical disks?
Microsoft was putting the control of game reselling in the hands of publishers, which goes to an earlier post about corporations trying to eliminate the first sale doctrine. They were trying to tie the game disc to a single user like a digital good.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wowservers/Also remember when the Xbox One console had failed and pushed Microsoft to hide the sales of their console, plus port their games to Windows because sales were that horrible? This is why we have Halo Infinite on Windows on day 1 of it's release. Technically Microsoft never did financially recover from this move that they quickly walked back on.
Apparently not. This is why you don't say the quiet part out loud.
Ditto. I just don't buy Ubisoft games anymore, period.
This is how it is so far with other subscription services. The price will go up, and the price to remove ads will be an additional fee. Except that I'm a little late on the ads because Ubisoft is already doing this in Assassin's Creed games.
It's not like Ubisoft has been making good games for the past 5 years. Can anyone here think of a good game they made that wasn't a Rayman game and Far Cry 3? To give you a better idea, here's their stock form the past 5 days. Whether this is about Ubisoft doing poorly in general or from their plans to go subscription, is not yet clear.
Vaas, how we miss thee.
I remember having Sega Channel and I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Do you actually think that after they get subscriptions ingrained into gamers that there will be an ability to outright "buy" games any longer or even discounts or coupons that might undercut their subscription service value? Do you not see how Adobe killed off any kind of perpetual license sales after the move to subscription took hold? Adobe once offered both when they introduced subs and once they had a decent percentage on board the subscription train, then boom perpetual licenses disappeared. We need to learn the consequences to having software move to subscription services from the very people the game publishers are aiming to emulate (the streaming services and software makers like Adobe, Autodesk, etc..), and those consequences are simple, they move to subscriptions, and you can't buy any new games. Like Adobe and Autodesk, they will update their EULAs so that they can EOL (end of life) their activation servers for their older software due to "maintenance costs", so once you change the PC, reinstall windows, uninstall/reinstall the product or upgrade enough you are SOL. Software you "bought" is non functional and they will say if you want to use the product subscribe since it's part of their back catalog as support for the non subscription versions of the software have been discontinued.
Imagine games that were exclusive to Sega Channel that died with it?
That is ultimately every game studios goal. The problem is that you can't just expect this business model to work, just because you make games. Ubisoft is living off their games reputation they made in the past, like Assassin's Creed and Far Cry. Instead of just making quality games first, they worry about monetization first. The reputation from these franchises are carrying the frequent release of these games. Ubisoft is a publicly traded company, and like any publicly traded company their focus is on shareholders and not consumers. The other problem is this incentivizes the development of games to have a lot stuff that wastes your time, which is something Ubisoft is known for. If you're paying per month, then the more they keep you playing the more money they make. This is a tactic that Blizzard has done with World of Warcraft and it's done wonders for them.
