Because you fricking agreed to it in the steam TOS, homosexual. It's not "you WILL own nothing and be happy" you already own nothing and you don't fricking know it yet.
I know you're trolling, but for the benefit of the lesser educated, I'll just say that Ubisoft is a) a French company and b) any company that does business in the EU is subject to its laws.
nope. in both the US and the EU its been ruled on multiple times that a ToS is not a legally binding contract and any sections that are deemed to be unreasonable can not be enforced.
This will likely go to court and it will be interesting to see what happens then.
I recently signed up for scuba diving training and it literally said in the contract I signed, "If you happen to die through direct or indirect negligence by our staff, your family can't sue us." which I thought was pretty funny
EULA is a contract and a legally enforcable one at that. Any contract that requires or encourages illegal practice is considered null and void. So if you can prove a EULA is null and void, then go for it. But if you cannot, then it is legally enforcable.
EULA is a boilerplate contract and thus is subject to having clauses thrown out by a judge for being "Odious" which is legal for shitty. Doesn't have to be against the law, just bullshit.
This is not but morons who actually buy Ubishit are too stupid to care about their consomer rights. Anyone who would be bothered by this stopped buying Ubishit games long ago (or never did in the first place).
She got hit with an automated ban for player reports. It just so happened to be while she was milking a cow, it was pretty funny. AGS Black folk acted like there was no automation involved in the bans despite the fact that people were being banned out of the blue despite never talking in chat, me included.
I wouldn't really call it streamer bait, the game just ticked a lot of boxes and was pretty fun despite the sheer quantity of bugs and issues it had. It has by far the most satisfying gathering/crafting system in any MMO i've played. The game is dead now so I'd never go back to it but it definitely had some spark that I think people were hoping would just get better instead it got worse every month.
She got hit with an automated ban for player reports. It just so happened to be while she was milking a cow, it was pretty funny. AGS Black folk acted like there was no automation involved in the bans despite the fact that people were being banned out of the blue despite never talking in chat, me included.
physical games are next btw. Most physical AAA games that come out nowadays are always online even if singleplayer, so it'll be simple for them to create an arbitrary kill date and have the game no longer be playable after that date.
>pirates are responsible for israeli business practices
2 years ago
Anonymous
Quite literally, yes. Which part about this is not clear?
2 years ago
Anonymous
CORPORATION... IN ...TROUBLE?
*Hell March from Red Alert begins playing* *sparks begin flying out of body, mechanical whirring*
PRIMARY DIRECTIVE UPDATED
DEFEND CORPORATE ENTITIES AT ALL COST
*body begins to transmogrify into battle form, removes dick & balls* *arms transform into onions plasma cannons*
OBJECTIVE: DESTROY ALL NAZI CHUDS
SEDITION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED...
YOU WILL PRAISE THE CORPORATE PRODUCT
AND PURCHASE IT
*proceeds to gun down negative metacritic reviews*
*cluster bombs reddit with glowing praise over a mediocre piece of crap*
BACKUP SYSTEMS ONLINE
*call sanyone who criticizes product a racist, bigot, etc.*
*plasters moronic flags all over company's social media* *cluster bombs said flags with "organic" praise*
CORPORATION SECURE...
ALL SHIELDS OPERATING AT PEAK EFFICIENCY
2 years ago
Anonymous
>can't even attempt to refute
Pathetic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
A lie will remain a lie and doesn't need to be refuted.
2 years ago
Anonymous
The truth will always be the truth, whether you like it or not.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Exactly. And the truth is that GoG exists and DRM is the choice of the corporate bootlicker.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nah, the truth is that pirates brought the DRM epidemic upon us all. You just don't like to hear it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No, that was big corporations seeking to press every single cent out of you. And you, the little bootlicking rat that you are, completely fell for it.
Remind me, didn't CoD come with DRM? How many times was it pirated? Any idea? Cause I have some numbers here, and these numbers go into the millions.
If DRM has any use, it's keeping little rats like you in check, but not pirates. DRM doesn't exist because of pirates - it exists because of you, little man.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>CoD has DRM >coincidentally, CoD was also pirated a lot
You are dangerously close to having a thought. Keep going.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Yes, read my post again, little bootkisser, and think hard. You will soon realize how you are the reason for DRM, and not pirates.
2 years ago
Anonymous
No, pirates are the reason. Always have been, always will be. If you could keep your Black personish urges in check, there would have never been DRM in the first place.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>AAA corporations rake in billions every year out of exploiting gullible morons >somehow the pirates are at fault
Never, bootlicker. You brought this upon yourself by worshipping an elite of money-grabbing bastards selling you glass pearls. Those corporate elites are laughing at you while they shit down your throat, and you ask for seconds.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Anytime you download a game, you prove them right. You justify their use of DRM. They point at you and say "See? This is a problem. He cares enough to play, but he doesn't want to pay. Normally he would have to buy the game, but thanks to easy piracy he doesn't have to. We need to do something."
Thanks for making video games shit, homosexual.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>follow the rhetoric of and worship greedy, billion-heavy corporations >get absolutely flustered when they do things against your wishes >blame the people that don't give a frick about said corporations
No, you see, I'm not suffering from this. It's you alone, because you keep buying their glass pearls. You are getting scammed every day in life, and you fail to realize it's only happening because you are still supporting it, like the gullible moron that you are.
It's time to grow up, anon. Time to realize that as long as you support these practices, they will only get worse for you. I will keep pirating, and I will never suffer from it. You on the other hand will be shackled until you decide free yourself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I'm not suffering from this
Yes, you are. The quality of games you can steal decreases due to your own actions. It's time to grow up and face the consequences of your actions.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Nope, the quality of games I pirate will stay the same forever, that's the fun part about pirating. I own these games, and nobody can take them from me.
You on the other hand will continue to lose everything you paid your hard earned money for. It's almost comical to watch you suffer.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I'm not suffering though. I didn't buy Liberation or any Ubisoft game in the last 8 years or so. I still find plenty of games to enjoy daily. Meanwhile, you're here complaining about how video games suck now despite you contributing to the trends you despise so much. You live an irresponsible life from your mom's basement at age 30+. The only reason you even have video games to steal is people like me. We make games profitable, we give a signal to the devs what we want more of. You get the crumbs off our table. If anything, you should get on your knees and suck everyone off who ever bought a game. And when you're done swallowing those fat, milky loads, you should thank us.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>I'm not suffering though
Keep telling that yourself while you seethe about diminishing quality of games that you enabled by blindly consuming shit and enabling DRM by fueling your money into it. >If anything, you should get on your knees and suck everyone off who ever bought a game. And when you're done swallowing those fat, milky loads, you should thank us.
How easily homosexuals like you reveal yourself, it's almost laughable. Constantly thinking of other men's wieners; this is your brain on blind consumerism.
2 years ago
Anonymous
DRM would still exist, if only to enforce regional pricing and exert more control over products. For example, nobody pirates Tesla cars, but DRM still exists so that they can disable paid features if the car changes hands and/or hinder independent repair.
2 years ago
Anonymous
if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn?
gaymers are just the perfect morons for anti-consumer publisher israeliteery where if you pay for a game you often get a lesser version taht require you to go thru hoops and may even harm the game's performance or just outright fricking break the game (hello rockstar), meanwhile pirates just bypass all of it
2 years ago
Anonymous
>if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn?
None of those media involve technology to the same degree. Games have always been at the forefront of pushing tech, be it graphics or otherwise.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Blurays already have robust DRM built into them yet none of the large distributors demand harder to crack DRM that harm the user experience. Only gaymers are dumb enough to let that be done to them.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn? >no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies
Anon, HDCP is literally baked right into HDMI-capable hardware...
2 years ago
Anonymous
let's have a look at the truth then, shall we?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>self-reported >huge margin for error
Next.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Companies who don't hate theirs customers (not like Nintendo and ubisoft) don't do it. Explain why.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They still have DRM measures in place. Only they're not nearly as intrusive.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>say somthing completely untrue >why doesnt this make sense to you
The alternative is to say when your company goes under or determines it not longer wishes to maintain upkeep on a game that it is required to release the code and make it open source. That way the code can be preserved and independently archived. Additionally that way if there is still a following, private parties and individuals can use the code to make their own servers or whatnot if its a multiplayer thing.
Because when people discuss how politics influence things we love like video games, the rest of you have autistic melt downs because the idea of being adults and taking on responsibility is repugnant for you
This will happen with every game using denuvo.
Do you seriously believe the publishers will put in the effort and patch those games to work without it? Not happening.
Corporations. Are you actually surprised or is this just more outrage bait?
either we get more pirates to crack every single game or its gonna get worse
>mark the checkbox next to "Service provider can rape my ass as he likes" >service provider rapes your ass >WOW WHAT?
Everything you have on steam is rented and can be taken away at any moment. You own nothing and you are happy. Eat the fricking bugs.
Why does this game need an online connection though? I've played it twice, on the 360 and Xbone. It's been a while, but the only online component I remember was maybe the leaderboards.
This should serve as a warning to Pcbros. If Valve and Gaben were such good guys, they would just say no and keep access to owners or force Ubishit to refund them. In the end, we all know they'll keep licking Gaben's dirty taint while pretending everything is right.
For Ubishitters, you only have yourself to blame. Imagine buying a dogshit game from a company that constantly tells you to go frick yourself.
well its a warning indeed, problem is no one is picking the piracy torch
i expect consoles to do the same thing in terms of digitally bought stuff and try to finagle weird shit to make physical copies unuseable
they're cornering us all.
Its legal because you made it legal by letting yourselves get buttfricked by using these kind of online platforms.
Serves people right for buying drm'ed shit.
Luckily it's a shit game that's better off off anybody's computer.
Sony is doing the same thing with Playstation Network games.
The costs for those authorization servers is trivial, and they could simply patch out any always-online DRM authorization check anyway; digital games that had to connect to M$'s Games For Windows Live server had such patches pushed (or at least Steam copies did.) Snoy and Ubishit are doing this because their companies are run by the greedy, sleazy fricks who are planning on retiring authorized copies so they can sell you a "new" remastered edition all over again.
Ubisoft themselves have previously patched out online-DRM before. The PC version of Tom Clancy's Hawx 2 went uncracked for years until they patched out the worst of the DRM scheme in it.
As for stuff like GFWL and Steam's own Steamworks, GOG has already got some solutions for it. They make drop-in replacement DLL files for those. Kane & Lynch released over the weekend on GOG has a brand new GFWL DLL replacement included, otherwise the executable files are the same as on the Steam version with GFWL.
Similarly Kane & Lynch 2 also on GOG includes a Steamworks-to-GOG Galaxy wrapper where the Galaxy client is fully optional. Some other games have included this previously on GOG as well like Deus Ex Human Revolution. There also the executable files match the Steam version except for the filename of the DLL required.
So it's not like removing DRM necessarily even means touching the game code itself, which could be a very lengthy and complicated process.
As stated in our support article, only DLCs and online features will be affected by the upcoming decommissioning. Current owners of those games will still be able to access, play or redownload them. Our teams are working with our partners to update this information across all storefronts and are also assessing all available options for players who will be impacted when these games’ online services are decommissioned on September 1st, 2022. It has always been our intention to do everything in our power to allow those legacy titles to remain available in the best possible conditions for players, and this is what we are working towards.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220711170011/https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-removing-access-assassins-creed-liberation-hd
It also raises the question of why the FRICK would anyone ever buy your games again if you intend to yank the support and these games are becoming ever more online-dependent.
People signed a Terms of Service. Whilte those ToS may not hold up in a court, you need to find people to finance that individual or class action law suit.
A single player game, made by a company without shitty online DRM, does not rely on the company's servers to function so of course it isn't as natural as for an MMO. That said, the decent thing for gaming companies to do would be releasing the server code either while the game is still alive or after it is dead.
You're fully justified in pirating any game you've already paid for in the past and have been denied access to. I don't even consider it stealing, just reclaiming possession of your property.
This is the kind of shit that will be used as an example for future EU consumer laws regarding digital goods. Won't help you play this particular game though since it'll take years for such legislation to get made and it would only apply to new titles.
>Won't help you play this particular game though since it'll take years for such legislation to get made and it would only apply to new titles.
The EU already have the requisite legislation that makes pulling paid-for content that is part of a contract of indeterminate time, a matter of failure to supply and non-conformance, where the trader is liable to restore the content and if they can't/won't the consumer can terminate the contract and be due a full refund.
The only legal 'out' is that the trader clearly announced on the store front without hiding in small lettering or attempting to sneak it by through EULA or other general terms and conditions, that they and their suppliers reserve the right to end supply at one point in time and at their sole discretion.
This is ALREADY A THING.
The problem though, is the same as with the GDPR: enforcement.
Government authorities in charge of said enforcement are operating on what is essentially a shoestring budget deemed to be 'enough' and 'suitable' by their governments. And underpowering and understaffing them is probably fully intentional - because lo and behold: you can't have such authorities actually have enough clout to have the time remaining to also investigate their government's own affairs and find shady goings-on there as the EU really requires them to also do, now can you?
Timmy's ten cent army is going wild trying to make this seem like a valve problem when its clearly an ubishit problem. Thats why there was a big disclaimer saying it uses third party drm.
It's not about the game, it's about the legal precedent. If a company sold you a toaster and then two years later broke into your house to smash it so you had to buy a new one it would rightfully be an outrage and illegal. Yet this shit happens all the time in games and no one bats an eye
That's not even remotely comparable and you know it. If you homosexuals actually gave a shit, you'd be whining about how you can't play Bad Company 2 or 1943 on Xbox 360 anymore. Monday Night Combat, any number of other online-only games that are no longer purchasable or playable. >b-but
Always-online DRM counts.
>decades of people, primarily only PC gamers, stealing vidya >a vidya company decided to do it instead
WAAAAAAA, IM LITERALLY OPPRESSED SAVE ME JORDAN PETERSON
>muh physical is always better morons
If you're not a zoomer, you should know that numerous physical PC releases from the 2000's are no longer playable because their DRM systems (SecuROM, StarForce, Safedisc etc) have either been shut down or no longer work on modern OS's. Bioshock and Spore are good examples. 3 activations and you're out, might as well throw away the disk.
Steam is a huge upgrade over that dark era gaming, that's precisely the reason why it got so big. Ofc, there are still edge cases like this one with Ubisoft, but it's literally just one publisher, and I haven't bought anything from them in 10 years because they stopped making Prince of Persia and Rayman games.
>making a precedent
not really. yeah it's shit but they're not the first ones to do this shit. immediately what comes to mind is dark souls prepare to die edition being removed sometime around the release of the remastered edition, but I'm sure there are other examples
They're turning it into a paperweight with Ubisoft Connect, which you always needed to play it in the first place. Steam and whatever other storefronts game happens to be on are merely casualties of Ubisoft's own moronation. These games must cost PENNIES to support and they're nixing them.
Not legal according to Australian Consumer Commission laws.
Expect a class-action soon.
We got Steam to offer refunds, we'll get you your Ubishit back.
That's not the case. It hasn't been the case for any other game taken off of steam either. Such as Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition. You can even download it still, it just won't be available for sale and any online features won't work.
>assassins creed 2 comes out >pirate it and play it >good game >finish it >I later learn people who bought it can't play it because online DRM and the servers keep failing
lol
Because you fricking agreed to it in the steam TOS, homosexual. It's not "you WILL own nothing and be happy" you already own nothing and you don't fricking know it yet.
>The TOS says I can kill you so when I do kill you it's legal :^)
not how it works
Well until someone sues them or does something it is how it works.
In the EU, we can just write to a person who deals with exactly this kind of shit and they'll sue for us.
>W-We'll just sue Ubisoft!
Laughable. Ubisoft is an American company. They're above your Yuromutt laws.
>he doesn't know google kneeled
>Ubisoft is an American company.
I know you're trolling, but for the benefit of the lesser educated, I'll just say that Ubisoft is a) a French company and b) any company that does business in the EU is subject to its laws.
Uh wut?
>they'll sue for us
good goyim
nope. in both the US and the EU its been ruled on multiple times that a ToS is not a legally binding contract and any sections that are deemed to be unreasonable can not be enforced.
This will likely go to court and it will be interesting to see what happens then.
I recently signed up for scuba diving training and it literally said in the contract I signed, "If you happen to die through direct or indirect negligence by our staff, your family can't sue us." which I thought was pretty funny
EULA is a contract and a legally enforcable one at that. Any contract that requires or encourages illegal practice is considered null and void. So if you can prove a EULA is null and void, then go for it. But if you cannot, then it is legally enforcable.
EULA is a boilerplate contract and thus is subject to having clauses thrown out by a judge for being "Odious" which is legal for shitty. Doesn't have to be against the law, just bullshit.
Exactly how it works irl every single day. You are just too poor to afford a good lawyer.
Better call Saul
You agreed to it in the parasitic uplay TOS*
no matter which storefront you bought it on pc, itll still be unplayable
>bought
have a nice day STEAMMIE!
anon get help. It's the game in general not just steam.
shill harder bootlicking homosexual, kys alongside your dogshit zoomer platform
What platform should we use?
all of you underage Black folk should be executed
paying for games should be grounds for an instant perma ban from all boards
>calls others underage
>behaves like a teen
lmao
cool, I still won't install your bloated spyware
Good, it's not mine though and I don't earn money, I don't give two shits what you do.
that's great, but I'm still not installing. Keep it up tho and maybe that fat Black person gives you 5 extra cents per post!
Don't care
ahh soi chan pls dont look me like that...! and instead ... --- please suck my penis!!!! and sit on m yface with your big big butt!!! MMMM!!! <33
What does a girl’s ass in your face feel like
>steam
>zoomer
Want to know how i know you're underage?
5 cents has been deposited to your Steam™ account
>anyone who disagrees with me is this schizo strawman i've dreamed up
get help anon.
This is not but morons who actually buy Ubishit are too stupid to care about their consomer rights. Anyone who would be bothered by this stopped buying Ubishit games long ago (or never did in the first place).
TOS don't override laws you dumb Black person.
Cite the law you're referring to.
>this thing that has never held up in court says so
based Dunning-Kruger anon
Then go ahead and sue Ubisoft for it. See how that works out.
Never going to work but maybe you can paperclip it on top of the muh sexism lawsuit going on
>sue the company that can win solely because you won't be able to afford legal fees
yes because the winner in court is always the right party
>TOS
speaking of TOS, do DID NOT milk Bessie, didn't you?
>You have been permanently banned
>Why? You have been banned
Don't know what game this is or who but that's pretty funny
She got hit with an automated ban for player reports. It just so happened to be while she was milking a cow, it was pretty funny. AGS Black folk acted like there was no automation involved in the bans despite the fact that people were being banned out of the blue despite never talking in chat, me included.
Why what an interestin churn of events.
Nice one
I wonder why this game lost over 80% of its players lmao
it actually lost 98% of players
Lmao thats even funnier dumbasses keep falling for these FOMO streamer bait garbage
I wouldn't really call it streamer bait, the game just ticked a lot of boxes and was pretty fun despite the sheer quantity of bugs and issues it had. It has by far the most satisfying gathering/crafting system in any MMO i've played. The game is dead now so I'd never go back to it but it definitely had some spark that I think people were hoping would just get better instead it got worse every month.
...were they actually banned for some Old MacDonald shit or what?
physical games are next btw. Most physical AAA games that come out nowadays are always online even if singleplayer, so it'll be simple for them to create an arbitrary kill date and have the game no longer be playable after that date.
>OH NO I DONT OWN SOME BYTES ITS LITERALLY NOT OWNING ANYTHING
fricking moron
Just pirate
You can't expect them to keep the servers running forever. So what's the alternative? Make players rebuy the game to fund the DRM server costs?
>servers
It's a single player game
For the DRM not the game they'd rather no-one play rather than pirates play
>not the game
which is the fricking point
Online DRM is a necessity in today's age. Don't want games to shut down? Stop pirating them.
People like you are the reason games become unplayable.
>boycotts don't work
rosa parks was a sheboon and she figured it out, why are you so far behind?
>pirates are responsible for israeli business practices
Quite literally, yes. Which part about this is not clear?
CORPORATION... IN ...TROUBLE?
*Hell March from Red Alert begins playing* *sparks begin flying out of body, mechanical whirring*
PRIMARY DIRECTIVE UPDATED
DEFEND CORPORATE ENTITIES AT ALL COST
*body begins to transmogrify into battle form, removes dick & balls* *arms transform into onions plasma cannons*
OBJECTIVE: DESTROY ALL NAZI CHUDS
SEDITION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED...
YOU WILL PRAISE THE CORPORATE PRODUCT
AND PURCHASE IT
*proceeds to gun down negative metacritic reviews*
*cluster bombs reddit with glowing praise over a mediocre piece of crap*
BACKUP SYSTEMS ONLINE
*call sanyone who criticizes product a racist, bigot, etc.*
*plasters moronic flags all over company's social media* *cluster bombs said flags with "organic" praise*
CORPORATION SECURE...
ALL SHIELDS OPERATING AT PEAK EFFICIENCY
>can't even attempt to refute
Pathetic.
A lie will remain a lie and doesn't need to be refuted.
The truth will always be the truth, whether you like it or not.
Exactly. And the truth is that GoG exists and DRM is the choice of the corporate bootlicker.
Nah, the truth is that pirates brought the DRM epidemic upon us all. You just don't like to hear it.
No, that was big corporations seeking to press every single cent out of you. And you, the little bootlicking rat that you are, completely fell for it.
Remind me, didn't CoD come with DRM? How many times was it pirated? Any idea? Cause I have some numbers here, and these numbers go into the millions.
If DRM has any use, it's keeping little rats like you in check, but not pirates. DRM doesn't exist because of pirates - it exists because of you, little man.
>CoD has DRM
>coincidentally, CoD was also pirated a lot
You are dangerously close to having a thought. Keep going.
Yes, read my post again, little bootkisser, and think hard. You will soon realize how you are the reason for DRM, and not pirates.
No, pirates are the reason. Always have been, always will be. If you could keep your Black personish urges in check, there would have never been DRM in the first place.
>AAA corporations rake in billions every year out of exploiting gullible morons
>somehow the pirates are at fault
Never, bootlicker. You brought this upon yourself by worshipping an elite of money-grabbing bastards selling you glass pearls. Those corporate elites are laughing at you while they shit down your throat, and you ask for seconds.
Anytime you download a game, you prove them right. You justify their use of DRM. They point at you and say "See? This is a problem. He cares enough to play, but he doesn't want to pay. Normally he would have to buy the game, but thanks to easy piracy he doesn't have to. We need to do something."
Thanks for making video games shit, homosexual.
>follow the rhetoric of and worship greedy, billion-heavy corporations
>get absolutely flustered when they do things against your wishes
>blame the people that don't give a frick about said corporations
No, you see, I'm not suffering from this. It's you alone, because you keep buying their glass pearls. You are getting scammed every day in life, and you fail to realize it's only happening because you are still supporting it, like the gullible moron that you are.
It's time to grow up, anon. Time to realize that as long as you support these practices, they will only get worse for you. I will keep pirating, and I will never suffer from it. You on the other hand will be shackled until you decide free yourself.
>I'm not suffering from this
Yes, you are. The quality of games you can steal decreases due to your own actions. It's time to grow up and face the consequences of your actions.
Nope, the quality of games I pirate will stay the same forever, that's the fun part about pirating. I own these games, and nobody can take them from me.
You on the other hand will continue to lose everything you paid your hard earned money for. It's almost comical to watch you suffer.
I'm not suffering though. I didn't buy Liberation or any Ubisoft game in the last 8 years or so. I still find plenty of games to enjoy daily. Meanwhile, you're here complaining about how video games suck now despite you contributing to the trends you despise so much. You live an irresponsible life from your mom's basement at age 30+. The only reason you even have video games to steal is people like me. We make games profitable, we give a signal to the devs what we want more of. You get the crumbs off our table. If anything, you should get on your knees and suck everyone off who ever bought a game. And when you're done swallowing those fat, milky loads, you should thank us.
>I'm not suffering though
Keep telling that yourself while you seethe about diminishing quality of games that you enabled by blindly consuming shit and enabling DRM by fueling your money into it.
>If anything, you should get on your knees and suck everyone off who ever bought a game. And when you're done swallowing those fat, milky loads, you should thank us.
How easily homosexuals like you reveal yourself, it's almost laughable. Constantly thinking of other men's wieners; this is your brain on blind consumerism.
DRM would still exist, if only to enforce regional pricing and exert more control over products. For example, nobody pirates Tesla cars, but DRM still exists so that they can disable paid features if the car changes hands and/or hinder independent repair.
if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn?
gaymers are just the perfect morons for anti-consumer publisher israeliteery where if you pay for a game you often get a lesser version taht require you to go thru hoops and may even harm the game's performance or just outright fricking break the game (hello rockstar), meanwhile pirates just bypass all of it
>if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn?
None of those media involve technology to the same degree. Games have always been at the forefront of pushing tech, be it graphics or otherwise.
Blurays already have robust DRM built into them yet none of the large distributors demand harder to crack DRM that harm the user experience. Only gaymers are dumb enough to let that be done to them.
>if that is the case why is there no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies and music and porn?
>no drm as widespread and cancerous in movies
Anon, HDCP is literally baked right into HDMI-capable hardware...
let's have a look at the truth then, shall we?
>self-reported
>huge margin for error
Next.
Companies who don't hate theirs customers (not like Nintendo and ubisoft) don't do it. Explain why.
They still have DRM measures in place. Only they're not nearly as intrusive.
>say somthing completely untrue
>why doesnt this make sense to you
You are a Black person.
>its pirates fault
>ignoring that piracy only shoots up when DRM shit gets worse
>stop pirating our games and we'll keep our servers running forever
>wait no we won't haha stupid goyim
So they made it so only pirates can play?
The EU was fighting for a law that forced publishers to give the server software or a way to still play these games when the servers shut down.
The alternative is to say when your company goes under or determines it not longer wishes to maintain upkeep on a game that it is required to release the code and make it open source. That way the code can be preserved and independently archived. Additionally that way if there is still a following, private parties and individuals can use the code to make their own servers or whatnot if its a multiplayer thing.
Nintendo did it first and other worse things and everyone was fine with it.
>Nintendo did it first
really
we're pretending nobody did this up until the switch
this nintendo killed the wii store and you can't download the things you bought years ago anymore
You agreed to it, homosexual. Enjoy losing your Steam rentals in the future, Valvecuck.
Nothing wrong with taking money from morons
Because when people discuss how politics influence things we love like video games, the rest of you have autistic melt downs because the idea of being adults and taking on responsibility is repugnant for you
>steamkeks
those smelly bootlicking paypig mutts deserve it
correction: ubicucks
us steamchads stay far away from anything labeled "ubisoft"
kys mentally ill underage homosexual and your honeypot platform
Hello sars what you think of games as sirvice
STOP KILLING GAMES
if you're moronic enough to buy the shitty "games" from ubisoft then you deserve having your games taken from you
Same thing with Nintendo
This will happen with every game using denuvo.
Do you seriously believe the publishers will put in the effort and patch those games to work without it? Not happening.
New laws should be implemented.
>caring about buying games
My copy still works.
Why this one game in particular?
It's horrible and ubisoft feels embarassment
>people crying over an ubisoft game of the worse kind
limão
Anão?
Anno 1404
Corporations. Are you actually surprised or is this just more outrage bait?
either we get more pirates to crack every single game or its gonna get worse
Who cares? Its Assassin Creed Liberation. It also stars a black woman which means most of you losers should care even less.
Blacklist and Far Cry 3 are also losing access to all DLC and multiplayer.
>who cares if muslims kill gays and israelites, most of you losers should be happy
>mark the checkbox next to "Service provider can rape my ass as he likes"
>service provider rapes your ass
>WOW WHAT?
Everything you have on steam is rented and can be taken away at any moment. You own nothing and you are happy. Eat the fricking bugs.
I buy crickets sometimes to snack on, don't knock it before you try it
Why does this game need an online connection though? I've played it twice, on the 360 and Xbone. It's been a while, but the only online component I remember was maybe the leaderboards.
This should serve as a warning to Pcbros. If Valve and Gaben were such good guys, they would just say no and keep access to owners or force Ubishit to refund them. In the end, we all know they'll keep licking Gaben's dirty taint while pretending everything is right.
For Ubishitters, you only have yourself to blame. Imagine buying a dogshit game from a company that constantly tells you to go frick yourself.
well its a warning indeed, problem is no one is picking the piracy torch
i expect consoles to do the same thing in terms of digitally bought stuff and try to finagle weird shit to make physical copies unuseable
they're cornering us all.
The goal is games as service, as in, you see things like gamepass, ubi+ and EA Play? Such things.
I dream of a world where you can't even pay for a game license, you have to purchase a subscription and that's it. Highway of legal games.
Okay, but why?
>hurrr hurrr master race
>Games litterally stolen away from you
zoz
Says moron who bought literal DRM machine.
two differences between us;
it's less common
we can do something about it
>trojancopyworld
lmao
just get a uplay emulator you dumbfrick boomer, it'll auto unlock all DLC and authenticate the game without you having to log in or be online at all
thanks for proving his point
You signed the T&Cs though
Its legal because you made it legal by letting yourselves get buttfricked by using these kind of online platforms.
Serves people right for buying drm'ed shit.
Luckily it's a shit game that's better off off anybody's computer.
Sony is doing the same thing with Playstation Network games.
The costs for those authorization servers is trivial, and they could simply patch out any always-online DRM authorization check anyway; digital games that had to connect to M$'s Games For Windows Live server had such patches pushed (or at least Steam copies did.) Snoy and Ubishit are doing this because their companies are run by the greedy, sleazy fricks who are planning on retiring authorized copies so they can sell you a "new" remastered edition all over again.
Ubisoft themselves have previously patched out online-DRM before. The PC version of Tom Clancy's Hawx 2 went uncracked for years until they patched out the worst of the DRM scheme in it.
As for stuff like GFWL and Steam's own Steamworks, GOG has already got some solutions for it. They make drop-in replacement DLL files for those. Kane & Lynch released over the weekend on GOG has a brand new GFWL DLL replacement included, otherwise the executable files are the same as on the Steam version with GFWL.
Similarly Kane & Lynch 2 also on GOG includes a Steamworks-to-GOG Galaxy wrapper where the Galaxy client is fully optional. Some other games have included this previously on GOG as well like Deus Ex Human Revolution. There also the executable files match the Steam version except for the filename of the DLL required.
So it's not like removing DRM necessarily even means touching the game code itself, which could be a very lengthy and complicated process.
As stated in our support article, only DLCs and online features will be affected by the upcoming decommissioning. Current owners of those games will still be able to access, play or redownload them. Our teams are working with our partners to update this information across all storefronts and are also assessing all available options for players who will be impacted when these games’ online services are decommissioned on September 1st, 2022. It has always been our intention to do everything in our power to allow those legacy titles to remain available in the best possible conditions for players, and this is what we are working towards.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220711170011/https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-removing-access-assassins-creed-liberation-hd
They gave permission to pirate their games
It also raises the question of why the FRICK would anyone ever buy your games again if you intend to yank the support and these games are becoming ever more online-dependent.
Mainstream has a short attention span. Most people don't even remember these games, let alone an Assassin's Creed spin-off title.
Guess I really will have to start using GoG or something from now on. It's only Ubishit now but just wait.
Ubisoft has been a shit DRM loving company for ages now so I'm not surprised. Stop buying their stuff.
you clicked accept on the EULA
People signed a Terms of Service. Whilte those ToS may not hold up in a court, you need to find people to finance that individual or class action law suit.
>every MMO does this
>somehow it's unbelievable with a single player game
why?
A single player game, made by a company without shitty online DRM, does not rely on the company's servers to function so of course it isn't as natural as for an MMO. That said, the decent thing for gaming companies to do would be releasing the server code either while the game is still alive or after it is dead.
You're fully justified in pirating any game you've already paid for in the past and have been denied access to. I don't even consider it stealing, just reclaiming possession of your property.
Do you get mad when MMOs shut down? I mean you already paid for it, and now you can't play it.
>checks my Epic library
>everything is all good
steam lol
its simple, dont buy ubisoft games.
how's it going buycucks? just back from playing my pirated drm-free games
It's legal until someone challenges them in court, get to it.
This won't be able to pass in the EU. Valve already tried some shady shit before and got a slap in the wrist.
Burgers will eat it up though.
This is the kind of shit that will be used as an example for future EU consumer laws regarding digital goods. Won't help you play this particular game though since it'll take years for such legislation to get made and it would only apply to new titles.
>Won't help you play this particular game though since it'll take years for such legislation to get made and it would only apply to new titles.
The EU already have the requisite legislation that makes pulling paid-for content that is part of a contract of indeterminate time, a matter of failure to supply and non-conformance, where the trader is liable to restore the content and if they can't/won't the consumer can terminate the contract and be due a full refund.
The only legal 'out' is that the trader clearly announced on the store front without hiding in small lettering or attempting to sneak it by through EULA or other general terms and conditions, that they and their suppliers reserve the right to end supply at one point in time and at their sole discretion.
This is ALREADY A THING.
The problem though, is the same as with the GDPR: enforcement.
Government authorities in charge of said enforcement are operating on what is essentially a shoestring budget deemed to be 'enough' and 'suitable' by their governments. And underpowering and understaffing them is probably fully intentional - because lo and behold: you can't have such authorities actually have enough clout to have the time remaining to also investigate their government's own affairs and find shady goings-on there as the EU really requires them to also do, now can you?
>*Ubisoft does this*
>Other developers/publishers: HOL UP SO YOU MEAN WE CAN DELIST AND DEACTIVATE GAMES BEFORE RE-RELEASING THEM? *speed dials Valve*
>HOL UP SO YOU MEAN WE CAN DELIST AND DEACTIVATE GAMES BEFORE RE-RELEASING THEM?
They can't
They can deactivate them on Uplay
So don't play Ubishit
Timmy's ten cent army is going wild trying to make this seem like a valve problem when its clearly an ubishit problem. Thats why there was a big disclaimer saying it uses third party drm.
I've always been saying that when you buy a digital license to play a game on steam you don't actually own the game and I was always ignored.
Funny how the turntables.
Anyone who buys any Ubishit game deserves this and more. Awful taste plebs
literal nothing burger, if you hadn’t played it by now you never would have, no-one cares fake outrage
It's not about the game, it's about the legal precedent. If a company sold you a toaster and then two years later broke into your house to smash it so you had to buy a new one it would rightfully be an outrage and illegal. Yet this shit happens all the time in games and no one bats an eye
That's not even remotely comparable and you know it. If you homosexuals actually gave a shit, you'd be whining about how you can't play Bad Company 2 or 1943 on Xbox 360 anymore. Monday Night Combat, any number of other online-only games that are no longer purchasable or playable.
>b-but
Always-online DRM counts.
In civilized country no, its illegal.
Too bad for burgers i suppose.
>a bar new low
>decades of people, primarily only PC gamers, stealing vidya
>a vidya company decided to do it instead
WAAAAAAA, IM LITERALLY OPPRESSED SAVE ME JORDAN PETERSON
Mirrors Edge and Catalyst are vanishing on Dec 1st - 3rd.
This would actually upset me if it were true, idgaf about Liberation
Nice try, Mirror's Edge doesn't even have Origin.
I don't care about Catalyst.
Filename
ME still has it too, upstate newyawk israelite. Install it and you'll see the origin launcher ingame bringing you to the origin dlc page.
Why are you lying? It's so easy to debunk and so nonsensical. What are you gaining from this?
>I will never have the power to mind control every person in the world so every AAA company sells 0 copies and go bankrupt while i laugh
>muh physical is always better morons
If you're not a zoomer, you should know that numerous physical PC releases from the 2000's are no longer playable because their DRM systems (SecuROM, StarForce, Safedisc etc) have either been shut down or no longer work on modern OS's. Bioshock and Spore are good examples. 3 activations and you're out, might as well throw away the disk.
Steam is a huge upgrade over that dark era gaming, that's precisely the reason why it got so big. Ofc, there are still edge cases like this one with Ubisoft, but it's literally just one publisher, and I haven't bought anything from them in 10 years because they stopped making Prince of Persia and Rayman games.
>anon speaks the truth
>gets ignored
Another fricking tinfoil conspiracy thread?
https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-removing-access-assassins-creed-liberation-hd
>Ubisoft sent the following statement saying that current owners "will still be able to access, play or redownload" them.
Except for the DLC you paid for.
>game series about evil nWo corporation Templars
Anyone else kekking hard over this?
It's the one you could get for free when buying remastered III, right?
>making a precedent
not really. yeah it's shit but they're not the first ones to do this shit. immediately what comes to mind is dark souls prepare to die edition being removed sometime around the release of the remastered edition, but I'm sure there are other examples
>Can anyone tell me how this is legal?
you didn't read the eula, i get it
>Ubisoft
If you bought this you deserve to get fricked.
You were warned about this from 2005. welcome to it happening
>The companies that does stupid decisions are the ones with EULAs: Ubisoft, EA, SEGA, Square Enix, etc.
huh.......
Because they afford better lawyers than you.
They're turning it into a paperweight with Ubisoft Connect, which you always needed to play it in the first place. Steam and whatever other storefronts game happens to be on are merely casualties of Ubisoft's own moronation. These games must cost PENNIES to support and they're nixing them.
Not legal according to Australian Consumer Commission laws.
Expect a class-action soon.
We got Steam to offer refunds, we'll get you your Ubishit back.
>The Australian shitposters are more powerful than corporations
It doesn't matter, people would still pay some money to Ubishit and continue enabling them on taking away the stuff you paid for years ago.
That's not the case. It hasn't been the case for any other game taken off of steam either. Such as Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition. You can even download it still, it just won't be available for sale and any online features won't work.
Gaben is first and foremost a gamer, and gamer look out for each other
WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN
Now, will the DLC remain? No.
>assassins creed 2 comes out
>pirate it and play it
>good game
>finish it
>I later learn people who bought it can't play it because online DRM and the servers keep failing
lol
Whatever. This is when piracy in morally acceptable.