Regardless of whether it’s a subscription service or not, this type of service, let’s say it’s included with a game you’ve purchased, is one of the reasons you’d actually want something like “end of life” for games. So, if Ubi decides to shut down login services, or servers in general, the games, especially if they have a single-player story, will still be playable, even years after the publisher leaves.

Let’s say you have a nice plastic disc in the year 2035 (which isn’t that far away), and you want to get your “old” console back to play it, so you get an “old” video format reader so you can continue using it that can use the old HDMI (think SCART or RCA Video now), and you turn on your new stereoscopic display in your flying car (we will definitely have flying cars in the future) and plug in your old plastic PS5 or XBox disc with about 30GB of data in it, and you’ll see:

24 hour service is not available

It’s unfortunate that this “classic” is no longer playable.

Again, the subtle components are one of the reasons I think the Stop Killing Games initiative is so important. Not because it’s perfect, but because it forces publishers to think about the future of their games.

For every Dutch person (or Belgian, or other EU citizen) who finds these things important: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

[Reactie gewijzigd door Umbrah op 26 augustus 2024 14:05]