Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o...
by josephcsible on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:37AM
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> government intervention, which is what many people in this thread are calling for, does not make market inefficiencies better; it makes them worse.
I agree in general. Remember, though, that copyright is government intervention too. Are you in favor of getting rid of that? That would solve this whole problem too, since just downloading a new copy without paying would then be perfectly okay.
Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o...
by Dylan16807 on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:31AM
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Do you think the first sale doctrine makes the book market more inefficient? Because that's along the lines of what people want for digital goods.
Ultimately, people get the market they create through their buying decisions. The reason these market inefficiencies and misaligned incentives exist is that game distributors know that people will spend a lot of money on games and won't pay much attention to the fact that they are actually not buying ownership but only a subscription. The only way to "fix" that, if it's a problem, is for people to change their buying behavior so it is no longer lucrative to distribute games on those terms.
> The distributor might also own the developer.
Yes, fair point, I had forgotten that Ubisoft in this case is both.