I have a recollection of some long threads about some companies discontinuing gaming content and members of Lemmy having strong feelings and evidence about all this. I have been trying to search these older threads up but I can’t find them. Does anyone remember these conversations? What companies were involved? Games? How much data was basically disappeared?

  • NoneYa@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    It was mainly around Ubisoft’s The Crew as the latest conversation. This was about a month ago.

    Ubisoft took the game offline and also removed from customers’ digital libraries with a message suggesting they try the newer installments in the series instead of the game they paid for.

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      5 months ago

      Thank you! So many people do not realize that this is coming to everyone who invests in digital games like this.

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        5 months ago

        Not all digital games. If they’re DRM free, and if the multiplayer allows for LAN, direct IP connections, private servers, etc; then they’re built to last, arguably better so than physical media.