The warning clearly states that the games won't be accessible on Steam from September 1st, 2022. Currently, there is no information if the owners of Ubisoft Connect versions will also lose access to their games.
Do you think Ubisoft can pull a stunt like this? Gamers have never encountered a situation in which a single-player game became unplayable after delisting it from the storefront.
Yohoho, mf.
The fuck? This is definitely in violation of Australian Consumer law
so they are just repossessing games they sold or am I missing something? Why would I ever buy a game if the company can take it back?
Seem like this shouldn't be legal not that that means anything
so they are just repossessing games they sold or am I missing something? Why would I ever buy a game if the company can take it back?
Not a lawyer but when Steam came up, one of the issues people had were that you're buying a license in the steam enviroment.
I'm guessing there's some way to argue that you still have the license, but they're under no legal obligation to actually let you download it through the steam enviroment (or anywhere else). I.e. if you have all the data files still you can legally play it, good luck getting those though.
There are laws in many countries that address this very thing, though i would hazard a guess that this is still a legal grey area and if Ubisoft insists on making the games unavailable to people who paid for them we're gonna see it get tried in the EU and the US.
So much for property rights as the bedrock of their entire system of morality.
The only things that trump "property rights" are land rights and IP rights
You are only buying a temporary license to use the game as a service. :porky-happy:
lol there's no way this actually stands, all sorts of different countries laws are going to get involved on this one
If by that you mean 'push people to pirate their games' then they will succeed!
Nah, the Steam version already forces you to download Uplay. AFAIK they are removing them from Uplay too. For AC Liberation it's probably because it's included with ACIII Remastered so they want to sell more of that, idk about Anno.
Damn I got Anno 2070 from a humble bundle like 10 years ago and I was going to play it any day now
WTF i just bought Assassin's Creed Liberation on Steam like last month and i haven't even played it
Given that they're removing it from the storefront you can probably appeal to Steam support and get it refunded anyway.
Try and get a refund. Steam customer support is fairly liberal with returns.
I really hope Steam CS doesn't drone strike me. :obama-drone:
Hey anyone else remember when Steam claimed to have a "kill-switch" in place for this scenario? Where they'd turn off the DRM for all existing owners if something like this happens?
:yea:
I knew it was bullshit back then, but it's good to see it laid bare for the general public.
Ross Scott of Accursed Farms has long warned about "games as a service" being all about dead games walking where the plug can be pulled at any time.
