The warning clearly states that the games won’t be accessible on Steam from September 1st, 2022. Currently, there is no information if the owners of Ubisoft Connect versions will also lose access to their games.

Do you think Ubisoft can pull a stunt like this? Gamers have never encountered a situation in which a single-player game became unplayable after delisting it from the storefront.

Yohoho, mf.

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Once again DRM harms everyone but pirates

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The fuck? This is definitely in violation of Australian Consumer law

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so they are just repossessing games they sold or am I missing something? Why would I ever buy a game if the company can take it back?

Seem like this shouldn’t be legal not that that means anything

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so they are just repossessing games they sold or am I missing something? Why would I ever buy a game if the company can take it back?

Not a lawyer but when Steam came up, one of the issues people had were that you’re buying a license in the steam enviroment.

I’m guessing there’s some way to argue that you still have the license, but they’re under no legal obligation to actually let you download it through the steam enviroment (or anywhere else). I.e. if you have all the data files still you can legally play it, good luck getting those though.

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There are laws in many countries that address this very thing, though i would hazard a guess that this is still a legal grey area and if Ubisoft insists on making the games unavailable to people who paid for them we’re gonna see it get tried in the EU and the US.

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So much for property rights as the bedrock of their entire system of morality.

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The only things that trump “property rights” are land rights and IP rights

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and whatever the opposite of labor rights are

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Commodity as ground rent

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