Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get ‘Comfortable’ Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

    • Kecessa
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      1 年前

      Yes it is as you depend on the goodwill of a digital platform. If Steam bans you how do you prove that you own the “DRM free” games you’ve bought from them and haven’t simply pirated them?

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        1 年前

        Why would you need to prove anything? The whole point of DRM free is that you don’t need to prove anything, you just run it.

        By saying that you want a mechanism for proving ownership, you’re essentially saying you want DRM.

        If steam bans me, I run the executables that I’ve downloaded. Same as I would if I pirated it.

        Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can block you from playing your physical media, and yet you claim that isn’t DRM, because the data exists on a disc/cartridge, rather than stored on an SSD.

        You are showing a fundamental cluelessness of what DRM actually is.

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          Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft can block you from playing your physical media

          Only if there’s an online component to the game. If I go buy a brand new Switch and a physical copy of Mario Kart, there’s nothing Nintendo can do to stop me from playing the game.

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            1 年前

            Not true. Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo can and do brick peoples systems, e.g. when they’re reported stolen or someone modifies their system. You rely on their goodwill every time you use the system or launch a game.

            And Switch game cartridges literally contain DRM lmao

            Nice job ignoring the rest of my comment.

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              1 年前

              Tell me, how do you brick a system remotely if it’s not connected to the internet? Entertain me, please!

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                Here in the real world, people connect their devices to the internet. This isn’t 2002. People connect their consoles to the internet, and OEMs can control them.

                Additionally, a lot of new games won’t run on these consoles unless you have an updated system.

                I see you again are not only moving goalposts, but you are also ignoring most of my comment.

                You going to answer anything? Untangle yourself from all the leaps you’ve made?