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Discussions in the past about not being able to access digital gaming content that users had paid for... (lemmy.ml)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have a recollection of some long threads about some companies discontinuing gaming content and members of Lemmy having strong feelings and evidence about all this. I have been trying to search these older threads up but I can't find them. Does anyone remember these conversations? What companies were involved? Games? How much data was basically disappeared?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

It was mainly around Ubisoft’s The Crew as the latest conversation. This was about a month ago.

Ubisoft took the game offline and also removed from customers’ digital libraries with a message suggesting they try the newer installments in the series instead of the game they paid for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you! So many people do not realize that this is coming to everyone who invests in digital games like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Not all digital games. If they're DRM free, and if the multiplayer allows for LAN, direct IP connections, private servers, etc; then they're built to last, arguably better so than physical media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Digital media of any sort, really.