Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye
Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye
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Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games
Ubisoft is stopping online services for 10 titles, including several Assassin's Creed games | Time to say goodbye::Ubisoft is ending online services for various titles, including Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Liberation.
Companys should only be able to maintain copyright as long as the product still works as originally sold. When companies stop supporting those products, they should be compelled to open source the server code, so that the community can take it over. This should be something enforced by either the library of Congress, or copyright law itself...
In my opinion they should also be giving refunds to everyone who bought the game and now can't play it.
If you can't keep an online service running, then you shouldn't be selling games with an online service. If the community can take it over, that's awesome. But they might not and customers shouldn't have to rely on that.
Online features, like the Brotherhood multiplayer, or those annoying older ads to use the mobile app while playing. The game itself can still be played.
While my first thought was agreeing with you, I had a think and I disagree.
I brought game xyz to enjoy it, not to keep it forever. Ubisoft isn't going to take back that feeling of the first leap of faith, the time spent exploring the Caribbean, my sadness at watching ezio lose his family, find out that he never got to understand why or the sadness of not giving Leonardo DaVinci a hug by pushing the wrong button.... or my constant desire to look at every building and think how to climb it. I get to keep that. Its like going to buy a good meal - I don't want it forever and don't expect a refund if I go to pick it up again after 10 years.
Saying that, I would expect games to remain playable locally and not disappear completely if I can't connect to the internet. Put out a patch so it doesn't need to connect and let it go.
Even better- keep one server up and make a classic store. There are soo many games i played as a teen i would love to share with my kids, and possibly grandkids in 10-15 years.
You bring up a good argument. We can't compel creators to maintain their creations.
But looking at the philosophy behind both patents, and copyright, the theory is by allowing artists and creators to monetize their labor, we enrich all of society by creating more value over the long term. But if the creations are ephemeral and disappear, society's not actually benefiting.
It's a bit of a stretch, but imagine if literature disappeared after 15 years, so that nobody could read a text once it's old enough. We would have lost their creativity of the ages, mathematical, philosophical, engineering, historical treatise. We would have a massive gap in the knowledge of the world.
DRM, and online only platforms, are only going to become more common, so we have to examine what's the benefit of giving people exclusive rights to creations from a society's perspective... And I would say the exclusive rice are in exchange for the creation benefiting humanity after a period of time.
If you can't keep it forever, you didn't buy it - as in take ownership of it - you just rented it.