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This is self explanatory; to all who do not support the idea of ownership, there shall be no more funding, regardless of their game's quality.
Advice:
buy from GOG, avoid single player games which require internet connection or 3 party launchers.
Repost from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1ugzirg/stoppayinggames/
This is the movement. It is time to take gaming back from for profit studios who want us to have zero rights to what we purchase.
2K shut down Battleborn, I am still pissed.
I feel like President Skroob and his luggage, here. This encapsulates what's already on my own ban list nearly verbatim. Incredible.
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I can get behind this.
I don't even remember the last game I bought that required an internet server. If I can't host a local game or private server for multi-player, I'm not interested. Of course, I only buy maybe one game a year, and it's never anything current these days.
I bought a few games from smaller studios and indie devs and i get "AAA" when it's a giveaway like GTA 5 a few years ago but i mostly go sailing and even that isn't necessary lately because of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. G.A.M.M.A. and been playing it since 0.9.3 so about 2 years maybe and i did try S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 and it was meh so paying 60-200$ for 1 game that will most likely barely be played is a waste of money for me so no point in coming into port.
All software has been licensed since day 1. You have never owned software in your life, even if you have a disc.
Imagining thinking Netflix is a games company.
So bleak
You never heard of Call of Duty?
They also made a really good Menu Simulator where you scroll endlessly looking for something decent to watch.
I already don't, so...
Are gamers capable of voting with their wallets? How about slasking for and supporting games that allow users to host their own servers like we had in the 90s? Are there even any games that do this any more?
there is a pretty small game owned by microsoft that allows you to do that
Most but not all of the survival crafting genre will allow you to host your own servers. Others still have LAN using listen servers, but both are rare.
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