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This thing of moving everything to a cloud service. It all gets more expensive, interdependent, less reliable and your stuff is taken from you on the whim of some ceo.
It's part of why I want more support for stopkillinggames.com. It's not just games that are dissapearing after you buy them. It's heated seats in cars, cloud subscriptions for security cameras, etc.
But even worse than that, why does everything need to be an app on my phone?
Isn't it only really AAA games though? I am happy not buying Ubisoft products
Unfortunately companies like ea and ubisoft have these "indie support programs". Where they offer funding for indie devs, who often grow dependent on that funding. Then they threathen to pull the funding unless they develop what the publisher wants.
This is how trail out started amazing, then quickly got destroyed by ea. They never got to the point of properly polishing the game before they started pushing tons of mindless dlc's. In the end the rushed bug fixes and forced extras caused the game to run like garbage.
They took a good game we paid for, ruined it and tossed it aside. Unfortunately though, this problem won't be stopped with legislation as easy as the "stop killing games" thing
Yes, reject everything published by them.