Mori_Yuki: I would call what Ubisoft and Nintendo && Co. are doing robbery and someone should file suits against them.
They bind you to an online-account and client or paid membership + a console, they keep games up in their store for some years and then games are taken down and stores gets shut at the end of lifetime. In case of consoles, owners no longer get access to promised features, multiplayer and what have you and most important patches and bugfixes! This can render games originally bought completely useless, because without a patch or DLC, only available from servers no longer available, there is no use playing it. Even though someone's bought physical media.
A great thing for those who invested serious money into overpriced collector's editions, good luck trying to sell them when servers will be shut-down. Or, as is the case with Ubish*t, can't keep playing your games, because they are now broken and you can only progress so far and no way to access DLC you paid good money for.
As opposed to Ubisoft, with a new hardware generation, there will be new stores and the consoles support older games you already bought and paid for. If you want the old game you just have to pay for it again else - go f. you.
This is one reason I stopped doing business with the likes of Ubisoft or any digital store where a client is necessary to play games. There is no way to backup anything with these fraudsters, because even in case you
got backups, when there aren't any servers, what good is it for? You just waste space on the harddisk.
Yet, still, people are willing to accept this and they invest hundreds of millions into games and DLC and item-shops. Lucky we got the bad bad piracy for it to substitute for free and without client that they can shut-down any given day and still enjoy the games instead of wasting more money for the same thing to happen somewhere down the road, just because they - Ubi, Steam and whoever else conducts business the way they do, are getting away with it scott-free. ;-)
Im out of the loop here but what is Nintendo doing?
And who is downvoting every post on this thread? Seriously, this is a bad turn for the gaming industry as a whole. Nothing good comes from this becoming mainstream apart from more money in greedy corporate pockets as "gamers" shovel more of their hard earned money into stupid transactions for games with a limited shelf-life. I should be concerning that I can have a more complete experience playing a game on my SNES than I can on my PS3.
Wishmaster777: The biggest problem are the people of sheep mentality, which always support the current thing, who believe that buying games will provide the publishers and developers with more money to make better new games and maintain their online services active for yars. The smart guys are the ones using various means to get them for free. The extra stupid awards go to the people who buy Ubisoft's games. This is just business guys, not a philanthropy.
If the game has the following brands attached to it, don't buy it, and the problem is solved:
Electronic Arts
Ubisoft
Sega
Activision
Bethesda
Kalypso
Blizzard Entertainment
Unfortunately, EA has bought out a ton of studios and ruined them like Bioware.
I would also add Valve to the list. They tend to be the innovators in implementing crappy stuff that gets past gamers because their games are "so good" (software needed DRM and MTX being two notable examples with Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2). Also wary of Konami but they havent really produced any good stuff in a while anyway.
