Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth of games for inactivity

Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by jackson1442 on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:44AM (#29699740)

Ugh Xbox drives me up the wall with their "ownership" scheme. A disc doesn't actually contain the game, It's a _license_ for the game. When you insert the disc, your Xbox downloads the entire game to its drive, but the game won't launch without the disc inserted.

It's the worst of both worlds. After the Xbox store shuts down, none of your discs will work because they don't _do_ anything. And you can't even launch the game without messing with discs because you can't rip the license from the disc- it MUST be in the machine to launch.

At least you can still sell the disc. For now...

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by onion2k on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:55AM (#29700148)

I don't think that's correct. If you disconnect your xbox from the net, the game will still be installed (from the disc), and you'll be able to play it. Everything will still work after the Xbox store shuts down. You just won't get any updates or DLC.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by dend on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:58AM (#29700780)

This statement is not accurate. There are games that ship as licenses rather than binary blobs on discs.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by crtasm on Monday December 27, 2021 @04:22PM (#29706922)

What kind of numbers are we talking here? All of the 15 or so games I own have had the game on the disc.

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