The video games trade continues to hit us with miserable classes of how fickle digital possession will be, with every thing from DRM to servers being taken down and extra serving as fixed threats to your possession of video games you’ve bought along with your hard-earned cash. One other sport is now seemingly hammering that time residence.
Ubisoft lately shut down all servers for 2014’s The Crew, which rendered the always-online sport successfully unplayable. However although there was some hope of community-made patches making the sport playable once more in some capability, Ubisoft is all however nuking these hopes by revoking licenses from gamers who’ve bought the sport, which suggests they now not have entry to it in any respect.
Shared by customers on Reddit, a message on the sport’s library web page reads, “You now not have entry to this sport. Why not examine the shop to pursue your adventures?”
Ubisoft has but to formally touch upon the matter, however as you’d count on, there’s been appreciable backlash from the community- which is comprehensible sufficient. Once you purchase a sport along with your cash, you count on to personal it endlessly, even when servers have been taken down. By revoking licenses, Ubisoft has basically set precedent for purchases being short-term, which is unlikely to go down effectively with audiences.
