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I agree but on the other hand what happens when you want to play the game in 6 years and they removed it? Or they removed it for political reasons? I have used Ubisoft+ in the past especially for assassins creed so it’s good but it has drawbacks. I would hate to stop owning most of my games. I mean it doesn’t help that Ubisoft games after 2010 are just throwaways anyway. Remember when Ubisoft was the king?



Well here's the thing, the people who think they might want to go back to play a six year old game are probably buying it, the people who play most games once and never go back are just going to get a better deal with this kind of subscription.

So long as there's always a choice to "buy" the game then I really don't see it as a problem. That's certainly Microsoft's approach with gamepass, I assume they and ubisoft both will happily let people give them $70 for a game if that's what the customer prefers.


Yeah exactly. It's an option for those who prefer the old ways, but since they offered the subscriptions, I haven't bought any more Ubi or Gamepass games. Starfield was a bullet dodged due to Gamepass, lol. Talk about throwaway games...

These days only the indie studios are making the actually good titles. The AAA ones are just high production interactive movies with little actual gameplay. They fit the play once subscription model quite well.


There won't be a choice to buy games anymore, if we don't fight back against subscription only, individual copy never sold behavior of companies.

That's the point lmao, for consumers to be allowed to choose between something like game pass, or to buy a copy. That's what we have now.

If we let them, they'll only offer games on something like game pass. That'll be our only choice; no choice.


That would be unfortunate, but not something I'd lose sleep over. Choose your battles and all that.


Nah, we must burn these anti consumer ideas to the ground with resolute tenacity.

BMW charging a subscription for seat warmers, etc, etc. It's not an individual battle at all, ha ha. It's a war.




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