Publishers Are Destroying Video Games 

Thank you for pursuing this.

Hell yeah!

God speed good sir

Gamers rise up ✊

Thank you, Ross

It's like watching CERN in its infancy. Observing them firing atoms at eachother, waiting for the reaction black hole the proliferate.

BRO I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING I AM JUST 20 MINUTES LATE. LOL

one takes a shower the other one doesn't

Twice the pride, Double the canc3l.

there is more than two Asmons.....be afraid....

The main issue publishers worry is that people staying playing old games on their own takes away their market. If 12 million people stayed playing crew, new racing games would have way less people to buy and publishers won't let that happen.

@@chrisysk91 thats how they view it but thats bullshit because they sold the original game. it just shows they are bad at their jobs. if everyone is still playing then make expansions like the witcher 3 did. in your example of the crew the only reason people wouldnt play new racing games is that they are worse. if the game is good people will play it. its just a way to sell cheap garbage games while erasing the memory of what a good game is for the new generation.

Also believe that if a game needs official servers to run and the game is shutting the servers down they need to make the software available to make private servers that people can host their own lobbies. I know it isn't a perfect solution but to even make it possible if someone had enough resources to revive the servers to do so it should be their choice.

Fun fact: it was Nintendo shutting down the 3DS eShop that made me feel comfortable finally Homebrewing it.

​@@remrem-gx3ml You've got to keep in mind man, there are people that still play Morrowind or even abandonware. These corporate shitheads would force subscriptions on people for going outside to play catch. They're literally hoping to destroy as much access people have to alternative entertainment as possible. They'd force you into paying subscription at gunpoint if they could. We know that's true given the recent vid Admin did around Smart TVs forcing people to agree to ads and being stored in before using a HDMI input. There's only one thing that would cause the corpos to back off would be if they ended up suffering their own personal consequences.

Thats cool! But that is not really the issue that they are talking about. Lets say this last server shuts down and Guild Wars 1 will be completely inaccessible and nobody could ever experience it for them self ever again. This is the issue he wants to prevent. As he said in the video "The game should be left a functional state after the company decides to shut down the servers" meaning that the game and all the effort the artist and developers put in to it will not be permanently lost

@@the12221 Yeah, on a business level its illogical to force a business to run servers infinitely in house. But if they want to drop service, for an online game, it should be forced to make it public and allow the public to run the game. If I as a owner of something, decide to throw something out, it should be completely resonable for someone else to use it and even at a level make money off it. If I as a owner want to keep it up thats different. Not to mention, as a copyright/trademark issue, it allows a company to completely shutdown and not allow A) competition B) the service to be continued unless only they allow it. When "games as a service" is moving more and more, its sucks. Companies locking out others just cus is hateful and spiteful. Gamers need to start showing out with their wallet, sadly though I don't think they will overall. Its just a suck sandwich all round.

@@the12221 Point is, they don't need to shut it down since they automated all its maintenance and the hosting fees are minimal. You have years and years before you ask yourself if you have to shutdown the servers, by then tech most likely has advanced enough that it's almost nothing to keep it on. For examlle today Diablo 4 needs a fuckton of servers, but in 2044 to entertain the remaining crowd it could probably be hosted on what Raspberry Pi will be in that year.

Guild Wars 1 is fairly unique , it's instanced maps are almost all generated client side and are only accessed by those inside of them, with the exception of townhubs which are shared locations, they designed the game really well so that it needs minimum upkeep, for a larger fully accessible multiplayer world e.g. WoW, GTA online or Club penguin it's not really possible . Also Arenanet still hires 2 people I think helping provide tech support, so it's not really pennies , more equal parts passion, the ability to gain more money from rare new customers for DLC/Storage space, and advertisements for GW2.

The Guild Wars Devs said they keep it running since the game only takes a fraction of the server capacity they have for GW2 anyway so there isn’t really a reason not to. But that also means if GW2 is shutting down it will take GW1 with it

Nah not with the current AAA gaming studios. Boycotted most of them already before gamergate 1. 80's & 90's were the golden age for gaming!

Damn you Klaus Schwab!

Wait you forgot your bug protein, the cicadas are outta control and we need you....

I wonder if the higher-ups of a Lot of these evil companies Would feel if they're not allowed to own house not allowed To own a car not allowed to own a life and Are told to be happy With it there'll probably be upset And Maybe They will get a Taste of their own medicine on how we gamers feel if we are not allowed to own games anymore

Actually this is more true than satire. For example with Blizzard games like Overwatch and Wow. You only own a revokeable license to the game. Similar to Adobe Photoshop, etc...

a car airbag can be replaced after its gone off even if the owner didnt have an accident, or because other owners who got in accidents found theirs not going off, but i cant replace the apple home button even if it fails on its own? thats assuming the part didnt get confiscated at the port by apples bounty program

There's a reason. You only bought a temporary license to play the game online as long as the service is available. It's in the terms of service. Game companies are legally covered. You never bought the game itself. It's like a used ticket to a theme park.

The theme park ticket says specifically "one day admission" on it. When you "buy" a video game there is no mention of how long your "ticket" lasts. Just because it is legal does not make it ethical.

​@@Magnarmisyou literally cannot play the game without agreeing to a licensing contract. EULA is an acronym not just a buzz word

@@Magnarmis So, a game company can just say: 1 year admission granted and you will be happy? Ok.

Such contracts by definitipn are void

Regardless if SYOu agreed or not You can still sue them despite theTOS forbidding it because they cant legally bind you to wave away your right for that

​@@laszloneumann500 And yet they have already done it. Roku & LG did something similar recently & they changed in their TOS that you agree to Forced Arbitration- meaning you can no longer sue them. You didn't accept- "Your" TV no longer worked. couldn't even switch over to HDMI inputs. To opt out you had to send a reply via certified mail within 7 days of not accepting the terms, & the way our postal system is it probably wouldn't arrive within @ least 2 wks. Their pulling similar shady cancellation BS like Planet Fitness, LA Fitness gyms etc. And remember even if you sue them they don't have to win- they just have to stall indefinitely, until you run out of $$ or settle, because what you'd recoup would be less than what you lose after paying the court costs. And although there are organizations to help, like the Institute for justice (IJ.ORG) & Pacific Legal Foundation, that's only if they are willing to take your case, & compared to Abortion, Civil Asset Forfeiture cases & other blatant violations of your rights I expect something like this would be left on the back burner.

@@elvendragonhammer5433 Forced Arbitration clauses are cute. You can still take them to court. Any good lawyer will get that out of the way. Its part of our rights. Yeah it sucks doing it but thats the world we live in. we could change it but we got no unity

@@TheMetroidblade Yes, you can take them to court- but taking them to court is NOT THE SAME AS SUING. You MUST prove that you have a VALID reason to sue, AND that the grounds are legitimate. In Arbitration, only if you can prove that they broke the provisions of the contract that forces you to adhere to. (In other words; they must have broken the provisions that specifically bind you to that provision of the agreement- AND YOU must prove that they did it first. That makes that portion of the contract un-enforceable by them) That will release you from that part of the contract & THAT PART ONLY. All other tenets or provisions are still enforceable by them. If you broke any other tenets or provisions they can then counter-sue you over your breach of contract. Otherwise, any competent judge will throw it out of court because you couldn't meet the burden of proof. Aside from that, it is settled by an arbiter- (that they pick) that's exactly what forced arbitration means. And I Quote: "In forced arbitration, a company requires a consumer or employee to SUBMIT ANY DISPUTE that may arise to binding arbitration as a condition of employment or buying a product or service. The employee or consumer is REQUIRED to waive their right to sue, to participate in a class action lawsuit, or to appeal the decision of the arbiter" This works just like you waiving your right to sue for damages, injuries etc, if you were on a game show, in the military They are & have been stoutly enforced. "Any good lawyer will get that out of the way. " No, any GOOD lawyer who's been through this against a corporation & their teams of lawyers, won't lie to your face. He will tell you you've got an ice-cubes chance in hell, cause he might not be able to get you out of the fire you jumped in. You missed the part where you waive the right to sue, which just like waiving your right to a jury, waived you right to represent yourself, or waived your right to speak at a trial means you gave up those rights; you cannot take those rights back, nor can someone use those rights on your behalf; You cannot instruct someone else on these rights either. THIS INCLUDES YOUR LAWYER. HE CANNOT DEFEND RIGHTS YOU DO NOT HAVE. This has to do with Ex Pre Facto laws. You can't defend against something you did knowingly. This is why if you murdered somone (but no one else knew & you hid it & pleaded innocent) your lawyer would be oath-bound to recuse himself from your case. For instance In a recent case an 18yo was driving a Mustang @ 155mph, she hit a motorcyclist & he died on scene. Dash cam footage from her car was used in trial. She could not plead "not guilty" because her guilt was never in question. A jury decides facts. She killed a man- FACT. She did get a lesser sentence, because she called for an ambulance & tried to give him CPR. So instead of getting 65 years she got 35. It might be around 18 w/ a good behavior release. I do however agree that we need more unity on matters like this. This hasn't been passed yet but if it does it will at least help. Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act The Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act is proposed legislation in the US Congress. The comprehensive legislation would prohibit pre-dispute, forced arbitration agreements from being valid or enforceable if it requires forced arbitration of an employment, consumer, or civil rights claim against a corporation.

It would be better if there was a 3rd party [either unrelated, or the platform holders] who they had to regularly give copies of the code to, so that if they went belly up, they couldn't just disappear with the code. At a minimum though, any singleplayer game with always online DRM should get a final patch to bipass any server checks. I remember trying to play The Mercenaries 2 after the servers were shut down. If your system was online the game would just lock up during the check, but it you were offline [having pulled the ethernet cable out of the 360 XD] then it would skip the check and be playable.

We can find other things to keep our attention occupied

Sorry, I zoned out after the first sentence. What did you say, again? (starts zoning out immediately)

Asmons 45 minute videos are the best. I don’t watch streams so I love when he stretches something out so I’m not constantly finding stuff to watch. Twitch viewers are a ton of kids who consume 90% of content in 60 second videos now

The real gamers are the Bidens we met along the way.

Not me though...

I don't understand your point. maybe you can explain it further? for me it is still a product versus a serves sitation. Why should it matter whether it is digital or physical. It is still a product or a service. what you pay for.

well that would add at least 30 bucks to every game out there

If ubisoft loses this, they will just relocate to the u.s. its a race to the bottom, just like corporate taxes

@@sten260 Not sure how because you ain't pay shipping and distribution costs at all. Their point is completely invalid because they actually saved money not doing physical copies. If publisher needs to break the bank like that, tear your contract up and get a new publisher, or do it yourself. Obviously not every studio can afford to do it, but if you can, you absolutely should be self publishing because those dick bags take a lion share of the profits and provide almost nothing that they could do themselves.

@@m16dude967 it would make games more expensive just because they have to deal with this shit, all kinds of rules and regulations make things more expensive

Did you say something naughty online and have to get your social credit score up a bit before they’ll let you play them again 😂

@@notthatkindofsam not that i am aware of... but wouldn't be surprised with as many times as i've said EA is shit for ruining so many good games just by getting involved.

@@thetattoodmini you tell no lies! I’m done buying anything they touch!

Well as long as those Platforms where you bought it don't go down. Isn't that the case with everything besides GOG ? If the digital distribution service goes down, you lose the license. Steam, Origin, Ubiplay, Rockstar etc

@@Hoenirmy hacked ps4 can hold that game forever as long as the hardware lasts. no internet connection. and because i can dump all my discs they can also sit forever in a hdd. In the end piracy is the only way to preserve games

@@shib5267 Yup. We will see if they go after emulators.

@@Hoenir That is an interesting question that I do not know the answer to... If steam suddenly died, what would happen to our game libraries? Probl gone haha

@@fosphor8920Then the 2020 riots would look like a picknick, nothing is more dangerous than millions of pissed off nerds.

That's the reason I haven't bought Himan: World of Assassination. I REALLY WANT TO PLAY IT, but I'm not buying it until servers are taken completely out of the the equation when it comes to me playing my SINGLE PLAYER GAME.

And yet they’re happy to lose money hosting suicide squad vs justice league

OR, hear me out, let others host these severs like they did in the 90s.

Some games rely on data from the server regarding NPC locations, etc. So these would not work offline. So the server side components would have to be provided to users to play the game. This is even more important for multiplayer games where you cannot do anything by yourself.

​@@colinstewart3531single player games should not require servers.

You can still go to France after 1 week of ubisoft refusing to respond or help resolve your issue, just a heads up.

Reverse engineering an entire server (once the server is offline and no longer exists) would be incredibly complicated though. Depending on the game it could be borderline impossible.

Yeah, we honestly just gotta revisit the Public Domain laws, 70 years might’ve sounded ok when they were writing those laws a 100 years ago but they are not okay in today’s society with today’s media

@@speedyx3493 they have been revisited, and further extended. I think it was 60 years just not long ago.

Oh you missed the old news. Thank in part Disney. ​@@speedyx3493

They use to be much shorter, Disney changed that with bribes@@speedyx3493

you can blame asmon, he's constantly being contrarian and purposefully missing the point. Also people secretly love being treated like garbage, you can blame those people too

Asmon is as anti-consumer as it gets. He hates normal people.

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it."

@@christianalanwilson434I’d rather know the truth, knowing it probably will be dark and depressing. Lies are comforting but not real.

@@TheMetroidblade Well since AAA companies are working with SBI, more lies revealed 😂

It will be solved if we can download updates from a dedicated website. For example, when I format my console I must download the latest version of the system in a USB key, then plug it in the console

blame the developers who cant seem to be able to release a finished game on lauch

@@dav786Publishers are mostly to blame for pushing pre-mature releases.

That very much depends on the game - Xbox are unfortunately the worst for it. And it's certainly going to get worse going forward. However, currently most PS4 and even PS5 games do have a fully playable version on the actual disc. No download required. See DoesItPlay.

that patch is an UPDATE you DOWNLOAD it. as long as you dont delete it you still have it downloaded.

Actually

Yeah exactly. I wish more people would understand this.

It's cause the more people you are talking about. The majority. Are too young to have experienced that or have minimal exposure. They have no reference to this. The ones who do. Have families and responsibilities and don't have time to push back. That is especially if they have experienced and tried doing anything against government. They don't listen bro. The best politician you can ask for usually isn't even in a position to change anything on their own. So that type. That does listen and represent their constituents will still be able to do nothing. I have written letter to MLAs and house members on all levels about a variety of issues. I have given up doing that since. Only one of them ever responded cordially, with urgency and sincerity. The rest may have well responded with AI. It's a useless fight.

I also can still play my old games, funnily enough, this includes Mario brothers on the NES. 😂🤦

You own the right to play with that copy. You dont own the game tho.

@@vonborgah You own the right to drive that copy of your car, but you don't own the make. You'll have to buy a new one once it breaks down, can't get the same car back for free. 🤷 See, it does work. 🤦

Ross talked about it in his follow up video. If I remember correctly, it is the case in the US.

Yeah I have been doing my best to avoid online only games. Just from you saying this I’m going to avoid Luna. That’s super shady.

EA did this to like three of my battlefield games because I argued with a support agent who got butthurt and removed my account.

D2 was the first thing that came to mind as I watched this video. I'll always be super salty about what they did.

It was always live service. Still salty about this but their game their consequences

all of the loot/rewards for those dlcs is still 100% available though so that doesn’t really matter, no one who plays destiny cares about the 6 year old content lol the dungeons are the relevant content. You exposed that you never actually played the game by saying it went live service, it was live service since day one in 2014

I’ll never play D2 it’s the epitome of “free” to play games

Bungie has been doing this since 1999 or so when they stopped hosting servers for their Myth series, which is like playing any Halo game with no multiplayer outside of direct system link available

I really want a lawsuit or a state enforcement to give actual objective reasons from the company with proofs on why such a service or in this disservice is done to the customer.

Nobody should play any EA games at this point, agenda driven bad quality games for over a decade now.

yeah sure they probably don't take too much compute, but I'm sure keeping them secure for decades would be a headache. That said, they should make the server software publicly available so someone else can deal with it.

@@eafesaf6934i dont think u even know what lawsuits are with this comment damn..

@@sharpangus8538 Most games these days would only require a server handshake to get past the usual "always only DRM", that's basically a simple ping. And even games with actual multiplayer are pretty easy to handle, if we are talking about older ones. A good example for this are games like Diablo 1, it only takes a single potato at Activision Blizzards HQ to run everything involving that game after all. MMO's are probably the hardest to keep online long time, but even those can be put into effective hibernation with zero support (still better than nothing).

Been in the same boat for a few years, sucks

And some people say "tough cookies" to those that can't connect online. Apparently it's a *you* problem!

its for datamining so they can milk you more. you probably know it of course

I pivoted to indie games to avoid that, too. But indies are doing it now, too.

on the plus side, you are not yet conditioned into the new normal and probably you are much more sane still than the rest of us! :)

lmfao

I had that exact thought when it came up....Luke game pass for example would be a "streaming" platform comparison where you pay a monthly subscription for a library that the end user has zero control or say over, unlike a single purchase item.

@chrisboddie2782 Right, Game Pass makes sense because it is billed as temporary and in effect as long as you're paying a subscription.

Asmon just defends every single bad practice the industry does be it from developers, publishers or game"journos". It's just sad.

​​@@mothbreeder641He gets reviewcodes an early access, what do you expect 😂 The buggest gaming sites and channels are in the pocket already

well obviously you expect something that isn't there and change your expectations.. you can't just expect the companies to change their products lol

With MTX you can't really. Bc if you buy premium currency that has/can have a refund value. However, the moment you spend it on a skin/boosts the currency can't be redeemed. Ex.: In Valorant you have to agree that it’s a permanent transaction when buyign a skin. So in the best case, your leftover coins would return to your wallet, when the game shuts down.

Second option sounds too dangerous as it may force AAA devs to fully move to a subscription-only model, and once they disable the servers everything is gone

agreed. imagine how many obscure classics we lost already. like silcon valley or clay fighter.

Doing something on app requires app update... App update requires minimum version of OS. Updating OS not possible because your hardware only artificially supports a max version. New OS requires new hardware. So you buy new hardware. Apple's business model in a nutshell.

I used to repair shit for a living. I know for a fact that companies design their electronics with increasing levels of propriety tech so they can control the lifespan of the product. That and so all the repairs are forced to go thru the company, but it's worse, the flaws and failures are PART OF THE DESIGN. This includes the conversation about tractors... And every other piece of heavy equipment. I know for a fact that Cummins and caterpillar designed their computers (for heavy equipment/big rigs/ whatever), to break by using substandard parts known to fail. Now imagine every company is doing it. In every industry. So yes, publishers of games are following in the planned obsolescence pattern. You're exactly correct that it's all by design, too.

@@Mattfreeman89 john deere has models of tractors and combines that will go into limp mode if the farmer hasnt kept up their GPS subscription, zero to do with the mechanical operability of the equipment and even if the farmer does keep up with the subscription, when that gps provider goes defunct, that equipment turns into multimillion dollar lawn ornament simply from a third party's software.

@@briancollins7296 And that can cause farmers to go bankrupt. Nasty stuff. I had Verizon back when they did that to our phones. They would do an update that forced your phone to slow down. It wasn't an old phone, it was designed to act laggy and slow. Customer service would excitedly suggest you upgrading and buy a new phone.

Vehicles are important. Games are digital toys for entertainment.

@@OilFreeFeathers Games are art.

The older battlefields were not planned to go offline, they just sorta happened when gamespy went under. But yeah still kind of annoying no secondary measure was introduced post game deth.

In their defense, when you buy Battlefield 2024 they give you access to the multiplay portions of many of their old games.

I have all of them on Steam tho

Well would be cool if buying was owning, then we didnt have to pirate anymore.

I don't think that is what this is about. This is about online games from what I can tell.

underrated comment. spot on.

yea, piracy was never stealing, but yea

Amen

Emulation is legal and so is backing up the Romchip and clean room reverse engineering. Its distribution of the Rom File that is always the sore point or now the BIOS or the Encrypted KEY

If they did that they couldn't sell you the "new TM" game that is the same as the old game with marginally improved graphics and content cut from the previous game.

Yeah but, pay to run it on a server system host that is not going to fold it up like Valve servers.

I don't buy games if there is no private dedicated servers, especially because I know that once they don't want to pay for the servers anymore, they will just kill it. The best option is to have a mix with "official servers/private servers". And some games allow you to host servers, but you still rely on their servers to get stats and information about your character, and if they want to kill it, you lose all the progress and there is it.

The publishers have been selling us COPIES of the games since Atari games. Copy is the keyword here. Go find something else to do video games are fast becoming unsustainable. Time to go outside and enjoy the world again.

@@ghostblackmormor8120 Or perhaps the developer initially has dedicated servers for the game and upon deciding the game and dedicated servers are no longer profitable they can update it to more easily allow private servers and then abandon it.

Well as long as he is also against dei too I'll help him

Freemans mind is funny AF!

Since I have a copy of The Crew, I'm going to follow the instructions on the site.

Get this to SBI Detected! Those gamers are rallying hard these days!

Same​@@KingKrouch

Yeah but Palworld Devs are based AF. Of course they're going to do consumer-friendly practices.

@@jazzyjswift like that is a bad thing?

Doesn't every game in that genre do the same thing? Like Ark and Valheim?

Now we only have to force everyone to do so by law. No more bullshit!!!

@@MrAngryMonkey100 Are you sure you've read that comment correctly?

Bro thank you! I was sitting here like "I know this voice, who are you?!?!"

Yeah I recognized that voice.

He still makes videos! Lots of videos!

Glad Ross is getting noticed from this video. I sent to some of my YT's I sub to and hope they spread the word

You should probably keep doing those halo theme song videos dude. They’re in the millions of views when all your other videos are in the 10k views range. Make that cheddar.

I'm also not a legal expert by any means but I was under the impression if a clause in the contract is found to be illegal the entire contract can be voided as bad faith, not just that part of it. Very likely I could be wrong.

This is one of the reason years ago why i was so against games running on Dedicated servers and moving away from Peer2Peer.

@@xLionsxxSmithyx its not like p2p is any worse than dedicated anyway its just different target same game.

Will every person on planet her promise they wont ever cheat, pirate, modify etc the game. No 100% certainty, no go.

Yeah and somehow thats LEGAL... imagine you bought anything physical for 60bucks and then the company came over and took it from you...

TRUUUUE

@@iunary I'm not saying that it's good, but it's legal for the simple reason that people agree to the terms and conditions.

@@perlundgren7797 ...after the purchase was already made. That's the single thing I can't fathom. You buy the game and they require you to read a long list of legal gobbledygook and demand you to press "agree" to even play the game. How is this shit legal? Shouldn't it be done before I've given them my money? How do I know what they put into EULA and how they plan to change the game after my purchase? I didn't have my consultant next to me and all I did was press "enter" accidentally just to get to the game I shilled out 80 bucks for. That is in no way legally binding and shouldn't be considered as such in any capacity. Pure fraud

​@@iunary i picture a fine family gathering at thanksgiving, and while youve just sat down and filled your plate in comes a rep from pfaltzgraff, who picks up each plate, dumping the food on the tablecloth and smashes the plates in the street. your neighbors across the street thought theyd outsmart the rep by using paper plates, but the dixie rep is just turned the street corner.

hmmmmmmmmmmm big brain

You can't guarantee a blender will work for 30 years. It's crazy to expect a video game to work FOREVER

Yup

Single player games can be so misleading these days. Sure you can play the game completely offline, but before you can do that, It's a requirement to download a day one patch to even start the game. Practices like this is completely bullshit. I should be able play games straight off the disk like advertised. I paid for the game, the console downloaded gigabytes of data so that the game works, and now your saying I can't access anything unless I connect online?

i assume it wont let the user press play from the main menu now that the online check doesnt pass.

I wonder if Ubisoft will pretend that The Crew is still "functional", because you can still launch the game and go to the main menu

In any country where consumers have rights, that is.

Planned obsolescence.

​@@buttermilk5364 that' s not planned obsolescence. Planned obsolescence is when something is meant to break BY DESIGN of the product itself and no longer work generally to force consumers to buy the product again and again, which means product only lasts a short period of time aka a lot less than 10 years (when the Crew was released). Planned obsolescence isn't the result of something outside of the product deciding to no longer support it (like an entire game studio) especially after its worked for 10 years.

That's not correct. If the product is intentionally designed so that it requires active manufacturer support, then it doesn't matter if the planned lifespan is 10 years or 10 months. It was always intentionally planned to be obsolete.

@@IanSlatas you just described every piece of software ever launched, doesn't make sense, its a term that actually is intended to mean something pretty specific, not a general term for things that eventually become broken/not supported. The term is being bastardized.

@@Jairoe03 Except, I didn't describe every piece of software, just most software from the last decade, some from 15 years and some software from over 20 years ago. You must be young. No one is requiring endless support from a company, just that they not be the ones in control of the off switch. For example, I can still run every NES game I ever purchased that isn't physically broken. I can still run all of my old RTS games and Need For Speed games from the 90's and early 2000's...except for Motor City Online that EA specifically shut down less than 2 years after launch (this is the problem). I can still play Unreal. My mirrors of my old windows 2000 server still run. On and on. Software "requiring" constant connectivity to run is a design choice and an anti-consumer one. I think a lot of people are far too comfortable with the current paradigm and don't know what it was like prior to this shift. Some market sectors still don't tolerate handing control to the software companies (ie. some analytical software for engineering) but the pressure from Autodesk to comply is strong.

Ok, this is the thing... You are not owing the game, you were just allowed to play it...

Yes, there is game Gran Turismo 7 on Playstation. There is HUGE single player content in it but the game requires constant internet access to connect with sony servers so you could play SINGLE PLAYER GAME against AI while everything runs on your LOCAL console. Without internet access game will play only arcade rece with about 95% single player content missing. Fantastic game design!

​@@Voldrim359 But the games and microtransactions are presented/advertised and sold AS IF they are perpetually ownable goods/software-licenses NOT as a subscriptions (like Netflix) even though that's exactly what MTX are... undisclosed software subscriptions, but with no guarantees or protections or user recourse of any kind... MTX are and have always been blatant fraud, already not legal in almost all other industries, but allowed here because most people are technologically illiterate and morally bankrupt (via the lobbying org the ESA/ESRB)... which is also why the space is a haven for completely and totally unregulated/unrestricted/unprotected gambling that rakes in many dozens of billions a year.

Those kind of games are way too toxic

What games? There are quite a few but 95%? Let’s not be crazy.

I can agree with this

Anybody that argues "you just want the company to run the game forever ur stupid lol" have not only lost the plot, they've dropped the plot on the floor jelly side down.

It’s actually Asmon*, not Asmond. His name is Asmon-gold. There’s no D there after the N. Just “Asmon”.

When they make the games they design them to stop working when the server goes offline, they could design it so it doesn't require their server, or a server at all. But they don't do that.

@@XenoSpyro exactly what i was thinking. its not about keeping the servers running its losing access entirely to a games you spent money on.

Legally pretty difficult to use precedents from other countries’ laws in court. Might be a precedent for new legal regulation to actually be implemented though

No it’s not… it would be quite the challenge in fact as they have different inherent rights and a different constitution. You can’t just pick and choose which laws from different countries you would like to apply in a random legal case

Hell yea

Shame he's defending the publishers.

Oh yeah, Ross had a black mold problem that delayed his videos, I remember that!

He looks like Asmon's twin brother

On a private Wotlk server right now as I type, waiting for this RS 25 to fill. I had so many high end geared chars on this server I had no reason to play Wotlk classic. Whats the purpose. Do it again? And pay for it? Gtfo