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Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games (kotaku.com)

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[–] Katana314 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I’m not sure how you drew this conclusion, since most people I know consider paying full price to obtain a digital copy to be extremely close to ownership.

I liked Telltale’s Law and Order series. They can’t sell it anymore, but I can still download my digital copy because I bought it full price.

The whole argument in the article is about monthly subscription rentals.

[–] nickhammes 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When a contract ending almost caused Sony to remove all Discovery content from users last year, including digital copies of things people had paid full price for, the cracks between buying a digital license and actually owning something that can't be taken away became more visible to a chunk of people. It's something, but it's not ownership, and it can be taken away based on agreements you may have no way of gaining insight into.

[–] Seudo 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Audible is open about it. Well, if you dig through the fine print. Easy enough to rip copies but I'd say most people only realise they need to when they loose access. Maybe not, but $30 for an audiobook seems like pretty shity value if you're only renting it untill you cancel your subscription.

E: I might be misinformed/ outdated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You keep the audiobooks you’ve paid for directly with credits when you cancel.