Linus is Comfortable Not Owning Ubisoft Games

If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

For a company, who just screwed over their customers by pulling the plug on a game that had no business being online only, to then tell people that they should trust them. Ubisoft has no shame.

Ubisoft is taking an unconventional marketing strategy of deliberately trying to prevent people from remembering what their app is called

My little sister was devastated when she lost all of the worlds she had created over time in little big planet. We are not comfortable with not owning our media!

This always happens with subscription services. They start off kinda centralized, then every studio decides they need to get their own service, and then you gotta pick and choose which service to use. This will make pirating worse tbh.

Ubisoft peaked with Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Rayman Legends, over 10 years ago. I've had 0 interest in their games since then, and by the looks of it that's not likely to change. 😂

If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing ;3

Something that didn't get mentioned about music vs movie streaming. Music streaming services have largely the same collections, so the competition is relatively strong. Movie streaming is a far more fragmented experience and much more common for content to become completely unavailable or exclusive to one service

Im 29 and I still have my Minecraft maps from when I was 16, gamers are not boomers, were more than capable of backing up our save data without some cloud server that will inevitably go offline.

The problem with subscription games is the same as subscription movies now. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Netflix used to be amazing until the studios decided to make their own subscription. Music works because it’s still under one service no matter what service you choose

I've been extremely happy not having the craptastic Ubi junk store launcher on my PC for over 5 years now. It was byfar the worst storefront.

This is like buying the rights to use a blender that is going to stay at your friend's house and you can only use it when he let's you. Are you seeing how stupit that sounds?

There is a MAJOR difference between "not owning a game collection" and "losing access to owned games." The CD collection comparison is ridiculous. It's not the same thing.

Remember online games used to be able to allow you to host your own servers? That was a great time.

Keep On Digging Ubisoft.

Only 7:15 into the episode, so it might be addressed. But I think Linus is missing a big underlying tone of the statement that people should be more comfortable not owning games. We have spotify and netflix for music and movies, yes. But those services do not prevent you from going out and buying physical copies of your favorite artist or film for you to watch or use at your own convenience. The way that the Ubisoft person talked about game ownership was about removing the option for people to buy the games they want to buy in favor of a subscription model. And for anyone that is even slightly into the hobby, being able to own the game you want and play whenever or however you'd like is very important. And on top of all of that, we already have massive games that you can't own. Everything live service. You pay for access to a game, not to purchase the game itself.

Regarding movie/show streaming services, Lois Rossman had a video about this, the tech companies force you to use android boxes and such devices to enable the eventual feed of ads. So netflix/amazon prime/etc., on Windows with any browser only deliver 1080p. On Linux with any browser, it's not even HD, it's less than 720p. I've noticed this personally with prime video and netflix on both windows and linux mint & debian on a brand new 4k TV. I was so dissappointed as a paying customer.

Linus, not owning music, I get that the vinyl community is fairly small, but there are still large portions of people that like to own all their music on vinyl.

6:17 That's because you are not listening to music. Music for you is just fun background....

If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.