Ubisoft's director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay has said that for all the growth of videogame subscription servic…
  • xor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    161·
    1 year ago

    yep. they shouldn’t be allowed to abandon games that people paid for… if they require drm…
    i really like ID software’s system of open sourcing games once they’ve aged enough…
    i think that should be the standard…

    • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      the reality is that it can’t be the standard. id Software is the exception because they happened to own 99% of the code.

      Ubisoft can’t release the source code to some random game because it uses a lot of other companies code for physics, sound, networking, AI, scripting, graphics, everything.

      The most realistic answer to this is that if you don’t offer public access to copy-written works for 10 years, then it should fall into public ownership. let people pay for it or let the public own it.