But in this case, even the best-case outcome is extremely dumb. Companies are forced to expend resources just so a few niche hobbyists are not inconvenienced. And there will be side effects, ultimately including geo-fencing of games to exclude California. It's a big market, but you can't make up for a net loss with volume.
Yeah those poor companies. They should just be allowed to take our money and then stop providing a service we paid for. Won't someone please think of the corporations????
What kind of weird argument is this? If I pay for a game then I, you know, want to be able to play the game. You know what I don't care about? Whether or not it's profitable for Ubisoft to keep a cheap signing server online.
I think this can be argued with directly on its merits - 1. maybe, 2. also that's probably fine, 3. also that's not what happened with car emission standards, etc.
(Only US, China and Germany are bigger)
My view has nothing to do with Corporations... I just really don't understand what players feel they are entitled to here. If you want "software" then buy that, and don't use the Service games.
Unpopular view I suppose. Maybe it would mean more games you could actually own, but I think it would just have bad effects.
For 20 years you need to support, patch, keep people and infrastructure.
Why the tech industry does not do it? I still want to use windows XP. Why my Nexus 5 does not work anymore ect..
This has been happening unofficially for decades, on a volunteer basis.
I play games that are 20+ years old all the time. I play Quake and Doom online pretty frequently.
You can still use Windows XP if you really want. You're not artificially locked out of it. You can also use your Nexus 5 if you want. I had one plugged in
yes
> For 20 years you need to support, patch, keep people and infrastructure.
No, you should just not make it impossible for people to do so. (via stuff like online activation and such). Most 20 year old games you can still run via a VM or something like that. If it requires online activation and the server for that are shut down, you can't.
> Why the tech industry does not do it? I still want to use windows XP. Why my Nexus 5 does not work anymore ect..
You can still use windows xp and a nexus 5.
Even if companies pass on the cost, companies that make better decisions like not adding arbitrary online requirements in the first place, will be at an advantage with a change like this.
..things they'd be doing anyway as they developed the game??