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>This is the same argument I heard for EA's Star Wars "Oh you must buy this single player game even if you don't like it, to show EA we want single player games." My answer is NO!
I agree. Ultimatums like that are bullshit because it's the company feebly attempting to guilt customers for their inaction.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about companies that do such practices in earnest. I just threw
Redfall out there as an example because it's the most recent instance that I know if, and why I threw in "
or something similar" because you may not support M$ for perfectly legitimate reasons not related to their GaaS model but what about companies and developers who
are honest and earnest?
> Because the consumer is not properly informed if the game will become unavailable in 30 days
How? It's listed on the box.
> even if I have no interest in playing The Crew or Dark Spore, that doesn't mean that I want them to be destroyed. I am all for media preservation, even shit media as you can learn a lot from a bad game, book or movie.
I agree, and that would be an ideal situation for an ideal world.
However we don't live there. So the next best option is to preserve what you can (Legitimately or through piracy, doesn't matter), and not sweating about the stuff that you
cannot preserve for whatever reason.
>I admit it's a very low chance, but it is a chance at game preservation.
Is game preservation the goal or is attacking these companies the goal? Take for instance something like
Call of Duty or
FIFA EA FC. All M$/EA have to do to kill Ross' entire argument is announce that the game will be playable until, say, two years from now and it will shut off, and that you can only continue playing your "content" (That they can change at any moment) if you buy next year's game that has the same restriction applied. Or Ubisoft can come out and say that players can still play
The Crew after the official shutdown so long as you pay a monthly fee to Ubisoft in order to access their special server software that they retain the sole ownership and control over.
See, the games are still "preserved" in the same way that
World of Warcraft is still "preserved" despite being an entirely different game from when it launched in 2004, or have an expiration date blatant explaining that you're only granted a limited time access to said content before you have to pay for it again.
Is that what you want?