First of all, you okay, buddy? You’re awful wound up.

Secondly, in what possible way are they wrong? Are you seriously saying that it’s just as possible to go to a music store or video store and buy a DVD/CD/Blu Ray as it was 10 years ago? You seen a mall lately? Been to a Best Buy to peruse their “media section”?

Whether you have to return something isn’t necessary to define it as a “rental.” For example, you can live in a home “indefinitely” as long you pay the rent every month (it’s called a month-to-month lease).

They want us to subscribe for a single month when a game of theirs is released, finish it as soon as we can, playing through it on a deadline, then unsubscribe as soon as we’re done?

much ado about nothing

I know nothing of what you speak. I built this rig 4 years ago for way less than 2k. It’s the 6th machine I’ve built since the mid-90s. Plays everything I buy, even the latest and greatest. Maybe not at max settings, but I long ago grew out of that infantile mindset. I will never pay for a top end card again because…

Long time PC gamer. not having any physical options sucks. Back in the day we got all kinds of neat goodies, sometimes free in the huge PC boxes before they slowly shrunk them down to nothing before getting rid of them altogether. Now we can’t even pay extra to get collectors editions of things 99% of the time. All…

You can still buy music and movies. I know, because I do! But I can look at all my similarly aged friends and family, and find that they’ve all, despite being born in the media-buying generation, now rely exclusively on streaming for both. They transitioned, not from a lack of options, but because of the convenience…

I think the reason that people were more willing to accept streaming for videos and music is because of variety.

So wait... rental stores let you keep your copy indefinitely?

what a great counterargument.

There’s no reason on Earth to think the same won’t be true of Ubisoft’s current games in 20 years.

I play most games a few years after they were launched, buying them with significant discounts (and with much more reasonable hardware requirements). I also do not always have the time to play as much as I would like, so I do not finish the games so quickly. And finally, sometimes I get hooked on some multiplayer…

Chug that copium harder. PC gaming is a joke of ever inflating hardware requirements because devs no longer even TRY to put any effort into fixing things like memory leaks and lack of optimization.

Good luck with your next $5k graphics card purchase in 5 years.

As someone that only buys 2-3 large game purchases a year and plays the heck out of them, no. Also not a fan of the new PoP art style. He looks like a Fortnite reject.  Yuck.

Indeed. And notice how those digital games still cost that $60/70, even though they don’t have that cost of producing a box or disc.

I stopped buying games on disc because they stopped making them.  The last video game I downloaded at home took 3 MONTHS to finish.  Fuck the all-digital future.

And once you can’t own your games anymore, the march of enshitification will ensure that you’ll get worse and worse while simultaneously costing more and more. See: literally every industry.

“Got comfortable” and “Begrudgingly accepted the lack of alternatives” are two very different things.

I’m okay with it as long as they’re okay with never owning any of my money.

Giving the reliability and transitory ‘status’ of ‘games as a service’ that publishers like Ubisoft has shown us, I believe I speak for every gamer when I say, “Fuck right off,” in response to Ubisoft’s newest asinine idea.