The games industry is increasingly trending towards these orwellian you will own nothing and you will be happy practices. Recent examples being The Crew a predominantly singleplayer game being shutdown without any thought of giving players that bought the game the means of playing it via an offline mode or a way to emulate the servers and going as far as revoking access to your license so you can’t even download the files even if the community makes a server emulator. This practice is equatable to theft and should be illegal.
Since the introduction of the EA App which unlike Origin has an offline mode you are required to be connected to internet to even to even launch singleplayer games barring you from playing your games unless you are connected to their servers.
If you live in the UK in the you are required to upload personally identifying information to Sony/3rd parties such as a facial scan and your ID to use a PlayStation account and this is something the ESRB in the US wants to implement as well which raises serious privacy concerns. This coming off the Helldivers 2 fiasco requiring Steam players to create and link a PlayStation account to play the game something which can be impossible due to region restrictions.
Nowadays when you buy a video game today there are so many barriers in the way of enjoying the games you purchase, a far cry from the days that when you bought a game it was a complete finished product that you owned.
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Stardew valley still works
Kindly_Island2960
Thats why support platforms like gog, just download exe and keep it somewhere
Arrathem
Lets not over exaggerate.
This isnt the state of gaming in 2024…
rancevsky
Stop buying shitty games from companies like Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard and everything will be ok
OatNAlmond
Love it saving my money
narvuntien
Never give your biometric data to any company (or government)
Giovenzio
Add caching stuttering and bad performance to the mix as well
darkness1418
Just wait until they reconnect you ez
Dis is joke btw
Jack19820
and thats why I prefer playing single player games or online games that lets you host your own server using LAN connection for free
ParanoidalRaindrop
I want my 80 CHF back
-Diamondh3art-
Correction: The state of AAA-gaming in 2024.
RazvanPaun
You forgot Escape from Tarkov’s new 250 euro DLC, which is not included in the 100 euro version (which was supposed to get all future DLC for free) because the devs don’t consider the new thing to be a DLC.
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The games industry is increasingly trending towards these orwellian you will own nothing and you will be happy practices. Recent examples being The Crew a predominantly singleplayer game being shutdown without any thought of giving players that bought the game the means of playing it via an offline mode or a way to emulate the servers and going as far as revoking access to your license so you can’t even download the files even if the community makes a server emulator. This practice is equatable to theft and should be illegal.
Since the introduction of the EA App which unlike Origin has an offline mode you are required to be connected to internet to even to even launch singleplayer games barring you from playing your games unless you are connected to their servers.
If you live in the UK in the you are required to upload personally identifying information to Sony/3rd parties such as a facial scan and your ID to use a PlayStation account and this is something the ESRB in the US wants to implement as well which raises serious privacy concerns. This coming off the Helldivers 2 fiasco requiring Steam players to create and link a PlayStation account to play the game something which can be impossible due to region restrictions.
Nowadays when you buy a video game today there are so many barriers in the way of enjoying the games you purchase, a far cry from the days that when you bought a game it was a complete finished product that you owned.
Stardew valley still works
Thats why support platforms like gog, just download exe and keep it somewhere
Lets not over exaggerate.
This isnt the state of gaming in 2024…
Stop buying shitty games from companies like Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard and everything will be ok
Love it saving my money
Never give your biometric data to any company (or government)
Add caching stuttering and bad performance to the mix as well
Just wait until they reconnect you ez
Dis is joke btw
and thats why I prefer playing single player games or online games that lets you host your own server using LAN connection for free
I want my 80 CHF back
Correction: The state of AAA-gaming in 2024.
You forgot Escape from Tarkov’s new 250 euro DLC, which is not included in the 100 euro version (which was supposed to get all future DLC for free) because the devs don’t consider the new thing to be a DLC.
And they wonder why pirating is on the raise
Drink verification can!