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

Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by usrusr on Monday December 27, 2021 @07:33AM (#29701971)

If they wanted to allow an open second hand market for nonphysical game copies, where you can separate out single games from your account, I'd say that the NFT approach might be one of the easier ways to do it. Downright practical. I'd even go so far as suggesting that this could be one of the least nonsensical NFT use cases.

But all that does not change the fact that they can't possibly want a second hand market. Leaving the old licence to whoever paid full price and selling anothor copy at long tail volume rebate is what pays the server bill.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by NicoJuicy on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:27AM (#29702311)

That's not even remotely true. Companies have laws to abide to per country, that's not even possible to implement now.

Eg. In Europe reselling is possible because of a court order put into law in many cases. They don't like that, so it's not done in the US.

And in this case, you are ignoring basic licensing logic: group licenses for Enterprise, discounts, beta licenses, ...

Add usually, NFT fanatics are ignoring all logic of the real world and just say "NFT's are better" lol.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by usrusr on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:52AM (#29702508)

Your real world licencing caveat to shatter all NFT game licencing ideas would have been regional pricing, not enterprise or whatever. Because that's what game platforms are already struggling with even without NFTs anywhere near, volume transfer of one-time voucher tokens across price region borders. (the bar to becoming an NFT fanatic seems to be particularly low today?)

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