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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off (www.ign.com)

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Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off::An executive at Assassin’s Creed maker Ubisoft has said gamers will need to get “comfortable” not owning their games before video game subscriptions truly take off.

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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 200 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Remember kids, if buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

[–] anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I like this guy!

[–] muh_entitlement@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

And if corporations decide they can charge a fee when we DON'T play, then we can decide to NOT pay when we play! The only way to make them feel their greed is to wave the ol' Jolly Roger!

[+] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee -6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I’ve seen this saying going around and while I do like it, something about it bugs me. These corpos want to treat everything as a service. If you acquire content from a service via illegal means you are indeed still stealing, no?

[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 11 points 10 months ago

You're either selling a service or a product, you don't get to lay claim to both, and you don't get to walk with peoples money by using linguistic tricks

[–] Holomew@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What content are you acquiring from their service if you get it somewhere else? If what they're selling is service, not content, then getting the content elsewhere doesn't affect them, right?

[–] aCosmicWave@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

I just want to start off by saying Arrrr, I’m on your side.

But I just don’t follow the logic. Netflix is selling both service and content. When people pay for Netflix… yes they pay for infrastructure related to streaming content. They also pay toward the cost of producing original content and acquiring licenses.

[–] muh_entitlement@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No: I didn't take it from them since they never owned my copy. The Supreme Court said piracy isn't stealing. The corporations lose NOTHING through piracy.