My favorite thing is Ubisoft blaming something and then gaming companies going, "Uh no? That's just you."
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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That's every publisher's wet dream. AI's almost ready, right?
god I wanna see them fail so badly.
lol ubisoft publishes a good game once in a blue moon and when they do they disband the team that does it. seriously these motherfuckers need to be jailed.
It's all a distraction from the truth that you already don't own games.
GOG is a slight argument against that
It depends on your definition of ownership. If having perpetual access to a product is enough then yes. But we aren't allowed to, say, disassemble a game and use it's assets to make something of our own. As opposed to say a spoon. Nobody can tell me how I can and can't use my spoon.
It's not realistic to demand to own games in the same way as a spoon any time soon. It is, however, pretty reasonable to demand you own games like you'd own a book. You can chop up a book and use it to make a paper maché dog, but you can't chop up the words within to make a new derivative book (or just copy them as its to get another copy of the same book except for a single backup that you're not allowed to transfer to someone else unless you also give them the original). The important things you can do with a book but not a game under the current system, even with Gog, are things like selling it on or giving it away when you're done with it and lending it out like a library.
About a hundred years ago, book publishers tried using licence agreements in books to restrict them in similar ways to how games and other software are restricted today, but courts decided that was completely unreasonable, and put a stop to it. In the US, that's called the First Sale Doctrine, but it has other names elsewhere or didn't even need naming. All the arguments that applied to books apply equally well to software, so consumers should demand the same rights.
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I know you didn't ask, but may I volunteer a car engine instead of a spoon. There's still IP involved in a car engine, but nobody is going to tell me I cant put my VW engine in Honda and sell it.
Yeah that's more comparable. I was mostly just trying to state the difference between ownership and a perpetual license but I'm thinking I oversimplified lol.
Haha, I just happened to be watching engine swap videos earlier today and thought it fit well!
You can make mods for many games and many people do.
Yes, but you can't use their assets to make other games or products.
You can add whatever you want to Skyrim, but you can't add Skrim to whatever you like.
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Except Battle for Wesnoth and Pingus.
Maybe OpenRCT and Osu! a little further down the line.
Flash news: you dont own your steam games and you're use to it. This "Ubisoft is the bad guy" but we all lick steam and others capitalist business's ass is getting ridiculous. Steam has 78 employees lol. Dont buy ubi's games and stop crying.
This is to bad, I really enjoyed this game one of the better platformers to come out in a long time.
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