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Nice move. Posting a polygon image so that no one will want to ask you for a source on this.
piracy is now an ethical option.
Piracy has always been an ethical option.
>now
It has been since the late 90's
The only ones who lose with piracy are the publishers. The devs already got paid during development and they surely don't get royalties from re-releases, remakes or reboots.
Yeah except then publishers seek to avoid risk and then stop funding single player games unless they appeal to every market, and instead prioritize consistent guaranteed incomes in the form of live service games. You imbecile. You utter buffoon.
>stop funding single player games
I fail to see the issue.
>and instead prioritize consistent guaranteed incomes in the form of live service games.
Like Hyenas and Suicide Squid? Right?
Genshin Impact, Fortnite
>The devs already got paid during development
Strictly true but the future of studios usually hinge on success. Not to say that alot of them don't get fricked over anyways or that piracy affects this at all.
>The only ones who lose with piracy are the publishers. The devs already got paid during development
Expect even the most basic publishing contracts will state that if the publisher doesn't recoup their investment, then the devs will have to pay the difference out of their own pocket. Which usually results in layoffs and downsizing if not outright bankrupting the studio.
This is also ignoring the fact that publishers aren't going to invest in developers/projects that don't make money.
>if we fail at our job of selling your game you have to pay us the difference
Sasuga hooknoses
It's EA's favourite party trick.
Sometimes the developers are also the publishers
piracy will face a full ban with anyone caught facing jail time
If only, if fricking only, there were ways around this which cost you a fragment of the cost of a single game lols.
These dumb fricks are too young to remember SOPA and PIPA. Had it been during Trump's presidency or current Supreme Court, both laws would have passed. With critiquing erased instantly from the internet as sites would be sued by corporations.
If everyone who ever pirated was suddenly sentenced to jail, there wouldn't be enough prisons to hold them.
Piracy is literally a nothing burger crime because everyone does it in at least some capacity. You ever listen to music on youtube on a non-official channel? Might as well turn yourself in, because you stole that listening session.
Piracy laws these days are purely meant to intimidate and in some cases exact action upon emulator devs, website runners, and private server owners.
Why do you care about the fricking 'ethics' of piracy, you bizarre little queer
Zoomers are all moralgays that can’t accept that they are bad people sometimes
I'm a zoomer. John Ubisoft missing out on one sale isn't my problem.
You can still play them if you bought them.
Eh. The Europeans will let us know if we can or not pretty soon.
pt 2
Ubisoft helping moldman's case right there.
>Europe has to save the rest of the world
>AGAIN
Ever since the government orchestrated 9/11 it has always been morally wrong to not emulate
Piracy has been an ethical option for as long as remakes have existed, and for as long as they have made you rebuy your PS1 or PS2 game on PS3 or PS4
but muh steam
And Gabe supports your decision to do so.
SHAREHOLDERS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
>now
piracy was never theft homosexual
>now
Videogame pirates are more conservationists than than actual thieves now.
Always was. Haven't paid for a game in 5 years.
>ethical
It's the only option
always was
>history
This one is especially important. Look at how many critically acclaimed, classic games are still stuck on old hardware with no legal way to purchase or play them unless you want to pay some "collector" hundreds of dollars for a physical copy that might not even work. It would be like if all of Stanley Kubrick's films or anything made prior to the year 2000 was unavailable to watch unless you paid thousands for an original film reel and every time you complain you're told "Why would you want to watch that when we have marvel movies you can pay to watch now? :^)"
>now
It just became more convenient. God bless handhelds like the Steam Deck. Emulate and pirate everything you can.
you can still d/l them if you bought them
Anon...
Do they allow refunds?
>You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?
holy israelite
It looks enabled on Steam's side, but the authorisation on the publisher's end stands on the way
>download it on Steam
>click Play
>it opens Ubisoft Connect
>You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?
Not only is it still in steam libraries but it's a really awful example because the whole appeal of this game was meant to be that it was a live service, that's the selling point and so inevitably that means it holds no value once the service is gone, it's not like taking down a game that could still work fine
Stop making sense and just panic about "le own nothing"
>it's not like taking down a game that could still work fine
But it could work fine, the crew literally had an offline option and you could do all the stuff solo. That's literally why the lawsuit exists
I don't care, being live service was the main selling point for the game and that makes it ok for them to shut it down
>Just kill games you paid for goyim
>being live service was the main selling point
if it was then it would be clear you're buying a subscription for [x] amount of days like a MMO
the main selling point was the huge ass map you fricking moron
the crew games are made by the test drive unlimited devs, it's kino just driving around alone.
>Tekken 8 is a live service game so that means Bamco has the right to take away Tekken 7 from players since Bamco is no longer making content for the game
I hope you're aware how fricking broad the term "live service" actually is
i mean lets be real here
that's your fault for buying an obviously shit game
If you don't resist this it's going to happen to games that aren't shit too.
>Didn't happen to me, so who cares
Until it happens to you, maybe then it's too late and it's standard practice, just like day 1 dlc/dlc in general
He supported live service and got burned
The Crew can still work fine though you fricking moron. It's a singleplayer game. And even if it wasn't there's no reason not to let users host their own servers.
this isn't the point, they are completely revoking your license, which means you no longer own it, so you can't "access" or download it potentially. So for ex: some dudes make a custom server for the game or smth, but you can't play it because oh yeah, you no longer own the game.
>le you own le your game!!
you always bought licenses
A licence cannot be rewoked for no reason.
>year is 2355
>Blizzard finally shutdown World of Warcraft
>Uuuuhhh? I don't own the game????? Physical disc won!!!!
I still have the discs of World of Warcraft that can be installed and can create a private server.
I wonder how much of what the original discs installs is still current and present in the client.
>because the whole appeal of this game was meant to be that it was a live service
Black person, what? the appeal was driving all around mainland US.
>Lie
>i don't care, lie
>don't worry. successful models never gets more adapted
You bought a copy, and it was playable. Your statement is meaningless at best.
>You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?
More like pursuing a refund
Is there a european minister or someone who can talk about it?
This should be illegal and honestly the laws on digital possession should change
SAVE ME MR GUBMINT! MY ONLINE ONLY GAME SHUT DOWN!
This is a game that downloads Uplay for you and forces you to use Uplay to activate and play the game.
It never used Steam for anything but facilitating selling a CD key to you to use on Ubisoft's shitty launcher, so you put yourself entirely at the mercy of the later.
oh and I forgot to mention, you were warned about all of this on the store page.
So what is your implications here?
That it's alright for someone to breach contract and cheat you if they are a shitty person?
The implication is take it up with ubisoft or better yet don't buy games that require their shitty launcher to begin with
Frick, problema solved. How did we not think about that? Thanks man!
Wait so everyone suffering here actually downloaded Uplay? This changes everything, nothing of value was lost and they deserve to suffer.
The chad EU needs to intervene, and frick up the amerishart companies that allow this
ubisoft isnt an american company. only 3rd world nations are doing this shit.
>You no longer have access to this game. Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?
Why yes we did take away your game, Why don't you browse our store and purchase another
Not my problem.
t. physical chad
lol the servers are dead you cant even play it moron
anon they sold the crew physically as well
valve should outright ban all 3rd party launchers from being sold on steam but you and I know that's never going to happen
>the government doing their job... is LE BAD evendoe I pay them taxes
it is true that steam forces you to open ubisoft connect to start the game, but unlike their launcher, steam still allows you to download the game files, even if they're locked due to drm, if someone's dedicated enough, they can still reverse engineer the files and make an offline patch
This is why you shouldn't play online only multiplayer games
Nope, they revoked loicenses. When MS kills things for tax purposes (Too Human, Crackdown 1&2) they just give you the game. Other publishers are being total dicks about it. You truly own nothing.
weird, i still have a couple of games that aren't sold anymore on my acct
There is a difference between delisting a game and removing it the way Ubisoft did. Sports games are notorious in delisting their older titles. You can find FIFA 2023 and 2024 but nothing older than that. I presume it's the same for NBA, NFL etc. if you got 2022 or 2021 in your library already you can play it, if not you can no longer buy it. This forces players to buy the newer stuff that would be more expensive than something released 2+ years ago.
you're not really an indie dev if WB is fronting you
Anyone can license the IPs. You can put Marvel characters in your pixel shit game if you want to pay Disney the 10 million dollar licensing fee and 30% profit split off the top line
RIP Giant Boulders of Doom. I had hoped since I had it downloaded it would just work. I was mistaken as it still has to call home and crashes instantly when no phone picks up. Glad I never bought the hell boulder or spent money in Robot Unicorn Attack 2.
quite literally the "money stolen" meme
The TF2 subreddit really wants to leech off of the Arkham insanity, I see
>Adult Swim
Let me guess, there was a bunch of problematic shit in there and Warner Bros. rightfully didn't want to perpetuate bigotry? Sorry but that's just common sense. Why are you bootlicking for homophobes? Grow the frick up, who cares if game companies take away a few games out of a thousand. It was in the license agreement you dumb frick. As long as it undos the damage GamerGate did, in some small form, they should take away more just to make the bigots like you angry. And no, piracy will not EVER be ethical. If you think stealing money from artists is ethical then honestly? Frick you.
Do you ever get tired of this?
Thank you for the hit of dopamine
go back to /gamingcirclejerk
I will always pirate my games, troony homosexual. I won't pay a fricking dime for your DEI homosexual ass shit and you will eat shit and pay for it too, kek
Black Rock manages almost 10 trillion dollars in assets
Do you morons really think they give a frick about a handful of billions?
Libertarian homosexuals complaining about woke need to realize that Blackrock etc. can throw their money around and play politics on a multinational level because capitalism and free-market ideology permit this. Billionaires and their companies are political players virtually entirely unaffected by democratic checks and balances. They're a new sort of monarchy/aristocracy. The politics a nation implements should be decided by the people through democratic institutions, not by the rich as they see fit. Even if some of my values align with Blackrock's efforts, I despise that they can do this.
>they aren't in bed with politicians, using laws and the state, to push their satanic agenda
Oh, and why do you think they can be in bed with politicians? Do you think it has something to do with money and how lobbyism is ENTIRELY FRICKING LEGAL in libertarian hellholes?
What's with the bougie leftist sterilized ebonics
rip rain world
Published by Akupara Games
Example of what games?
Why not just re-release it yourself on Steam again? Did the devs sign away all rights?
Outside of the devs that got out of their contracts (For example Rain World is safe because it changed publishers before this), yeah pretty much. Steam literally has a built in tool to transfer ownership to a different developer account but WB won't play ball, probably because torching the games to report them as a loss later is the plan.
Knowing WB's track record, my money is on this happening for a tax writeoff so they can mitigate how Suicide Squad was a massive flop for the games division. WB suits love their tax loopholes.
Anyway, go play Kingsway. I liked that one.
come home brown man
Lots of studios have problems but WB's the only one where I hear more about the old shit they're getting rid of forever than anything new they're making or planning to make. Just fricking go bankrupt and sell your IP off already.
Anything besides these?
https://store.steampowered.com/developer/AdultSwimGames
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1150590/Samurai_Jack_Battle_Through_Time/
This and the Rick Morty game are the really lost causes, since they are licensed games based on IPs that WB owns fully. Even IF a stroke of goodness fall on the dick responsible for the 3 clicks needed to give all of the other Adult Swim games back to the devs, these two games will not be included.
Super House of Dead Ninjas is really good
>duck game
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>Frog fractions 3
Ebin Vidya moment
>ghost song took the guy 10 years to make only to have it be delisted a year later
lmfao
Blame the publisher, not the platform
this is because WB wants to save an extra cent and not do taxes for games they didn't even have a hand in making anymore
What are the most notable AS games so I purchase them before they fricking delist them?
The Rick and morty vr game
Samurai Jack
Rain world used to be an AS IP actually but the devs managed to get back it from them before this homosexualry
>Rain world used to be an AS IP
wut? really?
Yes, it was published by AS originally but they and the devs got into legal shit that ended up with videocult and Akupara getting full rights
https://www.twitch.tv/rainworld/clip/SmellyThoughtfulWallabyCmonBruh-ewjwNw7hFL7pb-yP
The twitch clip is them basically confirming it
>Rain world used to be an AS IP actually but the devs managed to get back
Didn't the devs of Volgarr the Viking do the same thing?
Duck Game and Samurai Jack are the only ones that come to mind
Kingsway if you like dungeoncrawlers. Duck Game is good too, though this may or may not frick up the multiplayer.
super house of dead ninjas and super platformer deluxe are pretty fun
but you should pirate them, the publisher clearly doesn't want your money
don't fall for panic buying
I remember enjoying Pool Panic.
>Warner Bros
oh no
anyway
>nice, now those games in my library are worth a lot mo- oh wait
physicalchads win again bigly
>Selling games
drm-free wins again.
a store bought box of incomplete data isn't any more playable than a download of incomplete data.
realistically, what's to stop the handful of major publishers from deciding to delist their games from steam in a massive power play that would essentially pull AAA away from the current video game distribution model, and force the arrival of the gaming-as-a-subscription-service era, and/or the cloud-based-netflix-streaming-style gaming where you don't actually play on your own hardware but just view it on any screen, or whatever greedy/rent-seeking Black persony the video game industry will pull. Let's look at things realistically. How much longer is the current buying-games-and-hardware model going to remain sustainable?
Please don't give them ideas, doomgay
Several of the big ones already tried to force people onto their own storefronts, and almost all of them came crawling back to Steam.
Because normalgays will just use steam in the end, The best they could do is force steamgays to download another lanucher to play the game
It wouldn't really change anything because delisting a game doesn't remove it from anyone's account and PCgays are patient and have resisted every single attempt to break down steam, whether it be uplay, origin, EGS with exclusivity deals or console exclusives, people are already comfortable waiting years for games. These companies would completely and utterly kill themselves in the process.
Ross will save us
1) the games that would be purchased are already past their prime window so the majority of people who buy them already bought them and would still have them even if delisted
2) 95% of PC is steam, trying to force anything else has always failed
3) customer protections in Europe love to sue companies for hundreds of millions of dollars
4) it would create a vacuum on the market ready to be filled by someone who wants to make money
>what's to stop the handful of major publishers from deciding to delist their games from steam in a massive power play
The fact that this would backfire hard and no one is going to ever buy their games ever again?
I have dozens of delisted games on my account that I can still access whenever I want so literally what's the problem here
GaaS shit is a much bigger problem and that is entirely out of Steam's control. The only way not to get burned on that is by never supporting it to begin with.
Probably the fact gamers don't want to download 300 different launchers.
And publishers insist on having launchers to shill their MTX and other shitty MTX games instead of just releasing the fricking game.
>realistically, what's to stop the handful of major publishers from deciding to delist their games from steam in a massive power play that would essentially pull AAA away from the current video game distribution model
you mean like Activision/Blizzard did with Battlenet?
What EA did with Origin?
What Bethesda did with the Bethesda launcher?
What Ubisoft did with Uplay?
in the end, they ALL crawl back
Also reminder when they shuttered the bethesda launcher you could transfer all your games to steam
Steam is technically the unofficial pc gaming store, They all tried and failed to launch their own stores already and came back. They will pay steam the 30% tax to actually see sales
Cool so basically my favorite game ever, duck game won't be playable anymore. Life sucks.
>won't be playable anymore
Dumb frick
>put out free game as a promotion for your TV network
>no longer makes sense to support the game now that TV is basically dead
>discontinue game that nobody played anymore anyways
NOOOOOOOOOOOO SAVE ME BRUSSELS!
>free game
These don't look very free to me
Kingsway was actually kinda okay. I had fun playing that. Is your pic a list of all the games getting removed? The list of games in my Steam library that are no longer available is getting larger by the month it seems
The actual list is slightly bigger since I couldn't fit it all on my screen, but if they're removing everything under that imprint then yeah.
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Adult%20Swim%20Games
Headlander is on my wishlist. I guess I will never play it because I can't bother pirating something that I could get for a few bucks on a sale.
duck game is a 10/10 with friends
these days it's like warner bros deletes shit more often than they actually make anything
>rain world was published by adult swim but got away from it at some point
Phew
>adult swim games
a nothing of value was lost
*pirates it*
Genuinely who gives a shit?
>he reads polygon articles
Are you a literal homosexual?
OP is always a homosexual, newbie.
Why not just pirating it?
that would be illegal and anti-christian
So they're saying it's okay to pirate those games now? Okay. Way ahead of them on that front.
I know fricking Kingsway better not delete from my Library Or I am going to have a fricking field day.
Goated game
>frick Timmy gonna do?
buy me more games
>Warner bros
>Indie
If you have a multi-billion dollar publisher you're not fricking idie.
>*a multi-billion company that have been making video games since the inception of Atari
But that aren't going to be deleted from your account
I don't get why homosexuals constantly insinuate Steam does this when it is probably one of the few platforms that hasn't done this shit
Sorry to ruin your troony party but even if the game is removed off the store, you can still download it. It's not the first time this happens so you are all either moronic or pretending to be moronic. Either way your moms did a poor job of raising you.
games being discontinued without the ability of download, as well as made unplayable even if already downloaded has also happened before, newbie
Man can someone please upload all adult swim games flash included somewhere? I still have no idea how to play Caligula.
Just put the disc in if you want to play it, you still have it don't you?
Ah I see, piracy once again wins
Oh shit, does that include the LOTR games like shadow of mordor?
I don't get why they would do that. Digital games has the benefit of always being there for people to buy instead of having a shelf life of normal retail
>valve's logo in the image
frick off consolegay. valve would never do that
Pirating games is anti semitic.
That just means it's morally good.
>moral
Anyone who appeal to it, is mentally defective. It's literally "because i said so" level of argument.
Verification not required.
Adult Swim published videogames?
Europe and South America will sue: the most moronic pro-consumer & anti-business laws in the world.
Well shit I'd been meaning to try out Battle Chef Brigade.
Just incase they pull everything I'm going to shill this game because I enjoyed it quite a bit. Bought that shit on sale though and not for 10 USD. https://store.steampowered.com/app/588950/Kingsway/
video game preservation is really important